I've been told I have grit. Actually that came from my editor after he read my memoir manuscript. I never thought of it that way. I just kept getting back up and trying again. That perhaps explains how I, being raised fatherless by a Hispanic mother in public housing projects, and being evicted 7 or 8 times growing up, still managed to become a chess champion, graduate from a top 25 law school, manage a gubernatorial campaign without any prior campaign experience, develop a law practice where the "C" student (me) was hiring the "A" students. And it explains how I ultimately found a father I never knew, not even his name. We were featured on Fox News in 2017 with over a million people watching our reunion. I was age 60 then, he was 87. It was a tear jerker moment. Go ahead and watch it. Google "87 year old Air Force vet reunites with biological son". So, I wrote a memoir of me finding him ... and of my grit. But it was grit backed by an ever developing spiritual element. I have had an amazing life. My wife Betty, and two daughters, are sweet supporting me in my book venture. I love them second only to God Himself. So I say--move aside "The Pursuit of Happyness". "Finding Joe Adams" is the new story of grit.
