Tommy Johnson Sr. grew up in a small town of Bloomfield, Iowa far from the center of Nascarland (Mooresville, N.C.) where he and his wife of 46 years (Sarah Johnson) now life. But life was good growing up in small town America. No racial predacious over color or race, never needed a house key, no drugs and never heard of the word “CANCER”. Tommy Sr. graduated from the small town high school and moved to nearby Ottumwa, Iowa (then a prosperous city) where he attended a small business college that would prepare him for 25 years in the mail-order racing parts business. Ottumwa is where he met the “love of his live” Sarah May Shipley. They married and raised two children in Iowa, Tommy Johnson Jr. who would later in life followed in Tommy Sr’s footsteps in drag racing but become much more successful and famous. Tommy Jr. has raced all over the world such as in Australia, Abu Dhabi, Sweden, England, Finland. Their daughter Wendy (Johnson) Childers went to college at UNI and then moved to the Charlotte, N.C. area to work in the world of Nascar. She has been happily married for more than 10 years and gave us two beautiful grandsons Gage “Thomas” Childers (7) and Zane Michael Childers ( 3). Life is very good now but it wasn’t always good along the way. In 1999 Tommy Sr. was diagnosed with colon cancer that later turned to terminal cancer. This book tells of all the wild emotions Tommy Sr. went through with his battle and eventual victory over that terrible disease. So many people heard of Tommy Sr’s. story of success over absolute “no hope” terminal cancer that they begged him to put it in a book and hopefully help others fighting cancer. So he did. Even though it’s a small book it could be “priceless” to anyone battling cancer now? Yes, life IS good in N.C. now for the author Tommy Johnson Sr.