Tim Storey

So I asked my mother about this recently.

My father worked at a place called Bethlehem Steel.

She said, Tim, you were only like five and six years of age.

So I was what I call thinking big in small places at a very young age.

Mother's sixth grade education, and she's Spanish.

And then my father is Cuban black.

And it was very interesting that the fact that we lived in this two-bedroom cramped and crowded apartment with seven people, I'll never forget what my mother said to us.

I think that what happens, if you could look at your own life, because I know your story, is that many times we can have momentum and we have this momentum and we feel like, man, I have momentum, I have rhythm, I have force.

She said, we might be lower income, but we're not lower class.

Everything about our little apartment, the standard was high.

You never saw dishes piled up, the trash was always thrown, the house was always clean, even though it was so small.

And then all of a sudden, an interruption comes.

The word interruption, if you were to break it down, really means a disturbance.

We were really prospering where we were planted.

But I started to get turned on to Walt Disney movies.

It's like a knock on the door that you did not expect.

They would do these Walt Disney movies on Sunday nights.

So this life interruption was my father went to get my mother food, and he had called the restaurant, was on his way.

And I would watch these and my imagination would just go wild.

A man ran a red light, not on purpose, ran a red light, hit my father in his car, and my father died instantly.