Confound It! is a collection of recollections about the good, the better, and the totally messed up among my life's significant events. It also is a call to laugh at oneself and to invite others to do the same. It is an invitation to give joyful recognition to the recollections that shaped our lives, to remember them and to celebrate them. Over the years, readers on my mailing list have enjoyed my reflections and rediscovered their own life-shaping recollections. I see recollections as strong remembrances of the times, even the difficult and painful ones, that should be celebrated and turned for inspection in the sunlight of growth. They are, after all, the events that have shaped the "you" of today. You have exceeded yesterday's challenges, now you can relish the joys of your todays.Recollections are important reminders that most of what confronts us is short-term, a gnat in the eye of eternity, so to speak.Welcome to Confound It! Let your recollections honor your success—and your growth.