I Needed This will enlighten your day with anecdotes and short stories from the author’s incredible life and career that stretches from the four corners of our Country to locales around the world. The book will also expand your knowledge of words and their sometimes-alternate meanings as they apply to the valued and unusual adventure.


Allan Cates was born in the Hills of North Arkansas, He was the youngest of four children and the only one who never knew his father, who died when Allan was a toddler.

This book will take you from the dirt roads of Arkansas to the Medinas of Tangiers. It will enlighten your knowledge of words and places.