Born in 1924, Elwayne - nicknamed Bill at an early age - grew up in a Christian home during America’s Great Depression. A crisis of commitment and spiritual rebirth at the age of 18 set him on a co...view moreBorn in 1924, Elwayne - nicknamed Bill at an early age - grew up in a Christian home during America’s Great Depression. A crisis of commitment and spiritual rebirth at the age of 18 set him on a course which – 75 years later – leaves him with a paucity of earthly possessions to pass on to his posterity, but with virtually reams of poems, stories (stateside and overseas), “Bill-isms” and online exhortations. The possibility of some of those writings being read and appreciated by a wider readership than his own family and personal friends is, as he says, “frosting on my little old cake.”view less