This book, Thus I Came, is a collection of short stories which I have been privileged to relate. It starts with the joy of parenting and grandparenting pre-kindergarteners, it bounces back to my childhood memory as one son of a politcal prisoner, it recounts how my Mom survived as a poor, uneducated, de facto single mother of four children in rural Taiwan, it high-lights the ordeals my father had suffered during his five-year journey through the hell of political prison as well as his post-prison rehabilitation and inevitable bankruptcy, it briefs the struggle along my family lineage in the past 200 years, and it touches some unexpected events (in my military service, professional career, and life experiences in USA) that shaped me into a better, more mature and productive person.