More wooden steps now guide me through my first career. The rhetoric of climbing in this world of gain sounds strangely like that former rhetoric of earning better grades. When did I bargain for this life of climbing stairs that other people built? Cannot there be a stepping from the walk into a life that needs no wooden rail? 5 of 11 Click here for shortcuts Gallery Home Page "Walking the Wooden Way" Home Page This earth is an error A sense of safety Climbing the wooden way Attending school My new career Downsizing Questioning the wooden trail Playing the game Reaching the top Heart attack A new vision