Title: To build a trail
Description: "Twenty-nine personal essays and poems by Paul J. Willis, ranging from adolescent embarrassments and epiphanies to midlife losses and joys. His "trail" is both literal (a footpath reclaimed from a tangled Santa Barbara, California, hillside) and figurative (a realization of the love, wonder, and gratitude that infuse the examined life) --
Subjects: Human Life cycle, Life change events, Self-realization, College teachers, Biography, American Poets
Places: United States, California
People: Paul J. Willis (1955-)