Praise -- Title Page -- the plan -- chapter one -- My Mom, the Guinea Pig -- What's Behind the Mysterious Window? -- Hairspray -- Declaration of Independence -- Zen and Karate -- Manny's Mudsuckers -- A Night Under the Stairs -- Swap Meets and Filet Mignon -- From 75 a Month to 75 an Hour -- Nothing Changes -- Surviving in Compton -- Premeditated -- How Not to Run a Business -- chapter two -- I Start a Career in Pictures -- Cracking Down -- UCLA Can Be Deadly -- One-Hour Photo Snapshot #1: Thumbs Down -- One-Hour Photo Snapshot #2: Barbra Streisand Didn't Get It -- One-Hour Photo Snapshot #3: Oxy/Moron -- One-Hour Photo Snapshot #4: Chill, Dude -- Santa Barbara Bound -- Two Jeffs -- One-Hour Photo Snapshot #5: Firing Myself -- End-of-the-Year Photo Night -- Life Magazine Changes My Life -- Rocky Gunn -- Not in Kansas Anymore -- chapter three -- A Rocky Start -- Hooked -- Rocky Horror Picture Show, Snapshot #1 -- Rocky Horror Picture Show, Snapshot #2 -- Rocky Horror Picture Show, Snapshot #3 -- The Coin Toss of Destiny -- I Take the Plunge -- Getting College Out of the Way -- Once Upon a Time (The Storybook Opens) -- Charlie's Angels -- My Son, the Wedding Photographer -- Rocky Dies -- On Parole -- My First Wedding Photography Assignment: Earn More Than a Doctor -- Bill and Julie, My First Wedding -- The Pay-Off -- chapter four -- Seeking Closure -- The Nightgown -- The Original Bridezilla -- Great Expectations -- chapter five -- Storybook Takes Off -- Flying Solo -- My First Presentation -- Fly With Me Instead -- Flying Tethered -- Stuck With Each Other -- The Wrong Fong -- Never to Be Forgiven -- chapter six -- The Nights Under the Desk -- A Real Studio -- The Money Machine -- My First Mercedes -- HE HAS A GUN! -- Targeted at Target -- Antoine -- The Stranger in My Bed -- The Stranger in My Bed, Part II -- Giving Up Hope -- chapter seven.

The Intruder in the Spider Outfit -- What Inspired Me to Become an Inventor -- So I Invented Montage -- I Become a Software Guy -- Pitching Montage -- Montage Wraps -- My Lecture Career Resuscitated -- The Virtual Masquerade Party -- Alex Really Is a Girl -- A Real Conversation -- Cohabitation -- Mom Dies -- The Stranger at the Altar -- chapter eight -- Two Wedding Photographers in a Federal Jury Trial -- Caught Red-Handed -- The Jury Is Staring -- Busted -- A 240,000 Paperweight? -- Pictage -- The World Explodes -- The 9/11 Town Hall Tours -- Burned Out -- chapter nine -- Remembering and Forgetting -- The Art of Retirement -- Why Canon Dumped Me -- Digital Intensive -- Destiny Seems Familiar -- chapter ten -- Pre-Visualization -- The Lake House -- Border Blues -- How I Accidentally Created a Multimillion-Dollar Plastics Enterprise -- The Rotation -- Something About New York City -- Big White Ski Resort Village -- Abandoning Ship -- chapter eleven -- Never Say Never -- My Last Lap Around the Globe -- An Unexpectedly Wonderful Life -- My Approach -- The Law of Repulsion -- about the author -- Acknowledgements -- Copyright Page.