Finding My Way: A Memoir by Jerry Morton

As a three year old living in Granite City, Illinois, Jerry is taken to get his immunization shots in the military manner.  He becomes afraid.

As a four year old living in Granite City, Illinois, after getting off a public city bus, Jerry gets lost walking to his babysitter's house.  A teenager rescues him.

As a four year old living in Granite City, Illinois, Jerry has trouble sleeping due to nightmares.  Once that issue is resolved he finds himself visiting the stars.

Living in Granite City, Illinois, Jerry is with a friend cracking walnuts.  His friend becomes envious of his success and tries to exploit the situation.  Jerry's protests are unexpectedly supported.

Moving from Granite City, Illinois, to Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1949, to start third grade, Jerry notes some differences in the beliefs the two communities have about children's behavior.  He considers informing his new elementary school that boys and girls happily played together on the school playground in Granite City.

As a ten year old living in Cincinnati, Ohio, Jerry intervenes when he observes an older boy trying to take a bicycle from a younger girl.  His intervention produces unexpected results.

As a sophomore at Centre College in Danville, Kentucky, Jerry decides to hitchhike back to his old hometown of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, to spend spring break with his high school friends.  The hitchhiking adventure reaffirms the kindness of strangers.

As a Wisconsin ninth and tenth grader, Jerry learns to cope with bullies.  His behavior reflects the many issues within the subculture of juveniles he inhabits.

As a Wisconsin tenth grader, Jerry gets caught up in hostile Juvenile behavior that provokes a punitive response from state government.

As a Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, high school student, Jerry is accused of stealing money as a part-time employee of a local YMCA.

As a three year old living near St. Louis, Missouri, Jerry is given an order by his father.  At the urging of older boys, he disobeys his father's orders.

As a three year old living in Granite City, Illinois, Jerry runs away from a daycare center.  He gets lost and is helped by a stranger.

While working as a deckhand on an ocean-going dredge boat out of Port Lavaca, Texas, in the summer of his sophomore college year, Jerry learns the ropes.  He also encounters racial injustice that explodes into violence.

Completing his last summer working on a Texas gulf coast dredge boat and returning to central Kentucky for his senior year of college, Jerry decides to explore Houston, Texas, late one Saturday evening before catching a train in the morning.  The events of that evening confront his sense of trust on several levels.

During his senior year of college, Jerry has to carry out an order given him by his supervisor of work in the student-dining hall.  The recipient of the action of the order becomes so angry that he challenges Jerry to a fight. 

At the end of his first year of graduate school toward a doctorate in psychology, Jerry decides to see a woman claiming to be a psychic.  He is surprised by the woman's appearance and by her predictions.

A year or two after graduating from the University of Tennessee and still pursuing his interest in psychic phenomena, Jerry makes an unplanned stop to visit a roadside psychic.  He is surprised that she appears to be so much younger than her picture on the large billboard beside her house. He has doubts about this adventure.

Jerry decides to go to Chattanooga, Tennessee, to receive a psychic reading from Doc Hanson after reading a book that verified some of Doc Hanson's predictions.

Jerry and some of his close friends begin investigating claims of psychic abilities and happenings in the East Tennessee area.  They meet monthly to report on their findings.  They encounter apparent fraud as well as good people believing in the reality of their experiences.