Michael Worth is my dad. He passed on from his body in 2010 in his home in New Jersey. He was 66 years old and died of undiagnosed Pancreatic Cancer. I was lucky to be with him for his final days. He was an inspiration both as a dad and as an artist. As a young man he studied Fine Art at Canterbury College of Art. When he lived laterly as part of the Findhorn Community in NE Scotland, he began performing, improvising funny sketches and laterly writing full length plays, some of which I performed in with him.

He was a charismatic actor and a very funny man. He left Findhorn to live in NYC with Susie, who later became my stepmother. Michael worked as an actor in NYC, designed Susie's boutique childrens store and window displays, wrote prolifically, drew, painted, and made hand made books. He would gift these to people, often as helpful prompts. Titles include: "Giving Up Drugs and Boozing and Smoking"; "Helpful Hints for Desperate People" and the one that is featured in this film, simply "A Book of Helpful Hints" I just opened up my copy of this book (in the film, all of the spoken words come from this book) to this helpful hint: "Nostalgia is a pleasant thing. Don't let it wander off, becoming a sense of something lost, some-thing one misses. And if it does, consider this - perhaps what one misses is asking to be re-defined as a part of what one is."