Kristin Casey’s life, from high school to today, has been the embodiment of William Blake’s adage: “the road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.” From her days as a teen outcast in San Diego and Amarillo to her initially blissful immersion in the 1980s punk scene in Austin, then consorting with violent drug thugs, dropping out of college, stripping in upscale ‘gentlemen’s clubs’, seven years as ‘soulmate’ to Joe Walsh (Eagles, Ringo Starr All Stars), finally to sobriety and writing and counseling. Kristin takes PKM readers along for her rollercoaster ride in search of a tribe.