Joseph Padgal was born in a small in Southwestern Michigan town. He lived, along with his sister and parents in a former 100 year old farm house that had once housed a doctor's office. At the age of sixteen he started writing short stories about his life growing up in the town he lived, about his faith in God and his family. After graduating from high school he enlisted in the armed forces, eventually ending up in South East Asia as a result of the war in Vietnam. Upon his retirement from the military he moved back to Kalamazoo, Michigan where he lives with his wife in a three story home...