Don McNeil DA, painter and educator, takes the reader on a journey, tracing his life, his disappointments and successes. His journey takes in the influences his parents have had on him. His mother Jean Hastings, who was regarded as Scotland's finest soprano in the 1930s, gave him his passion and love of music while his dad gave him artistic flair and love for directing and producing. He also believes we all travel a path that continually brings us to crossroads in our lives requiring a decision to be made between the trodden road and the untrodden one...