Sober 17 years since 9/27/2000, raised in Torrance, CA, Owen was the 6th of 8 children in a very successful family.
His alcoholism took him down a dark path.
His recovery started in Tyler, TX where an older member shared how she kept a gratitude list.
She said she wrote down five things everyday but with one rule - NO REPEATS.
Owen has been faithful to that task all these years and has shared it with the fourth graders he was teaching, with the world with a book on gratitude as a basis for teaching and now teaching other teachers how to teach.