"I spent a good part of my adult life being AWOL, absent without leaving. I never left, but I was absent from my true self for far too long. I was not fully engaged in my life. I was tiptoeing around the things I really wanted to do, in hopes that I would reach death safely. Pain came for me and demanded my attention. I quit hitting the snooze button on my life and got serious. AWOL is my story but it is also the story of most every man. In AWOL, I tell my story and the stories of dozens of other men who have come back to live authentic lives." 

            - TD Dierker, AWOL