After I left Auburn to move somewhere else for family reasons, things got dicey.
I was under so much stress, supporting a bunch of kids with no fixed salary, that it began to show in my health.
I limped around CPAC in 2011, thinking I'd fractured a bone or something.
The pain went away immediately after I handed in the manuscript for my book Rollback. It had all been in my head.
I was overwhelmed, though.
Public speaking as our main support was precarious: I might get four invites in a month, but what if I got none the next month? So should I accept all four this month and be away all the time?
I was so anxious that I could actually feel my heartbeat. I was short of breath, too.
Then things got better.
A lot better.
My story -- which someday could be your own -- is now up:
Tom Woods