A Walk Through My Blue Ridge Mountain Memories is an autobiographical account of a way of life unique in many ways to the Appalachia Mountains. This narrative depicts the ways in which West Virginia helped to shape the person I am today. This story describes the birth of my soul with all of its joys, challenges, hardships, and struggles. It is a tale about a family with strengths and weaknesses, but mostly, humanity. I would like to invite you to take a journey with me back to those days to have you walk by my side through my experiences, to witness the events that, even now, warm my heart and some that haunt my soul.