When I was 10 years old, my father abandoned my mother. He packed up everything we owned, ordered his four children into the car, and fled.

I love both fiction and nonfiction, and here are some of the best books I read in 2022.

Readers often ask me how I deal with dyslexia. I tell them that I’m also deaf in my left ear and extremely nearsighted.

When we lived on the Navajo Indian Reservation in the 1960s, Mr. Rex Kontz was Fort Defiance’s postmaster. He was also my surrogate father.

I wouldn’t be where I am today, or possibly even be alive, if it hadn’t been for the angels in my life.

Growing up on the Navajo Indian Reservation helped me understand issues of race better than all the textbooks ever written.

As my disabilities became more apparent in childhood, I often felt sorry for myself. I had dyslexia, along with poor hearing and eyesight.

Running defined my life for decades. When I was a young kid, nothing felt better than running far into the desert.