What A Fool Believes, Michael McDonald

I’ve been a fan of Michael’s music since I was eight, so this was a no-brainer to read about his life and music. The chance encounters and early success with Steely Dan, then becoming a defining member of the Doobie Brothers (where I was introduced to his songs), and then finally his work as a solo artist. But what I enjoyed most was his takes interwoven with his music, of losing and finding himself as a man. The insecurities, the addictions, the highs and lows of fame, the wisdom learned. The trouble with time is there’s only so much renegotiating you can do. The love and loss of it all, the regrets and indecisions… the happiness and great joys. Michael deems that his greatest success has been his kids. It doesn’t matter who you are; at the end of your life, those feelings rise for most of us all. Life is a result of a million random events – the pieces to your puzzle. The discovery that it's not necessarily life’s biggest achievements that most directly impact who we become, but rather the smaller, seemingly insignificant, yet vivid, memories that often conceal their importance.