Bob Biederman is a publisher/editor/writer looking back over the poignant life and death moments that have defined his life and those close to him. A 1968 graduate of UMass Amherst and a 1969 graduate of the US Army Combat Medical Training facility at Fort Sam Houston, he looks back over his life in publishing and family to identify the behavior that defines morality. Bob is a new Medicare member born and raised in Boston. In 1973 he began his publishing career founding “Papers, Inc." with the pleasure of publishing the first poetry of Ursula K. LeGuin, the early work of Mark Helprin and other soon-to-be well-known writers. After inevitable financial failure, he progressed into trade publishing focused on the newly emerging community association industry in New England, California and Florida. For the next 35 years he wrote regular columns for a half dozen newspapers and magazines focusing on the human behavioral struggles involved in community living. Along the way he’s been involved in Open Adoption, Trauma Intervention programs, compulsive motorcycling as well as raising a family. Transplanted to Southern California at the turn of the 21st century brought good weather, but not much else except time to reflect on the many life and death experiences that shaped his life and the lives of his children; why he did what he did, what else could be done, really?