"To His own He came yet His own did not accept Him." John 1:11

To Fix then he had to fix himself first...

He was loved, respected and admired by everyone except his own broken family.

A book of stories about a boy who grew up in Malibu, California trying to repair broken relationships within his dysfunctional family after he became a successful adult. You'll laugh, you'll cry, you'll scratch your head and ask yourself why? The end in but another start, the answers you seek are within your own heart...

James Michael Smith, known professionally by his pen name, J.C. Burkesmith, is a son, a husband, a salesman, a taekwondo student and teacher, a stroke survivor and now an author. Raised by a tenth generation Bostonian English father and an Irish Catholic mother. In honor of his mother, he adopted his pen name by combining his first letter of her name and maiden name.