mr. toliver, where'd you grow up, and what'd your parents do? >> at that time growing up i was in shreveport, louisiana. to be very candid, my father and mother's marriage had failed, and six children were left alone. my mother died young trying to raise those six children, and so it was not people of means or parents of great stature. but from that experience and from those who were providentially brought along into my life, it made it possible for me to go forward. >> now, you self-published this book. why and what was that experience like for you? >> well, during the air force i had spent some 20 years being a developer of small business and entrepreneurship and so on. and when i wrote the book and realized that it was going to take an enormous effort to get it published, i set about using my business skills or experience at the time and said i think i can do this if i figure out what it is that we need to do. and so i did, and i was able to establish a publishing team and then put together the book following the examples of the great publish