PLACE: Where we are and have been physically located plays a most important part of our lives. What if I had/not been here or there would things have turned out differently, hell yes! If I had not been born and raised picking and chopping cotton sun up to sun down for $3 a day in a small town of a little over a thousand people in Gould, Arkansas; if I had not attended the colored school on the black side of town; if the white boys shooting at me had not missed; if I had been stationed in Vietnam during my time in the military, my life certainly would have been very different. Having spent most of my life in schools attending and teaching; they seem to be my most significant life place. Arizona State University, Phoenix College, Pepperdine University, University of Southern California, Sonoma State University, New College of California School of Law, University of California Merced, and others dominates my history of PLACE. Suppose I had cussed out the Cuban Soldier purposely blocking my path on the street in Havana; or if I had taken up the offer of sex by the Cuban beauty outside the bank. What if I had refused to pay the obvious bribe to board the plane leaving Havana, place. Further if I had reacted differently to all those times and places when I was "the only one". Living in such a diverse culture maybe others too have noticed the reactions/actions of folk when in situations where they were the only Asian, Latino, woman, man, gay, straight, white, Sikh, Muslim, Christian, Jew, or otherwise noticed. Physical and mental PLACE is life.