Pat and Doug Martin, parents of eight (I’m #5) and grandparents of twenty-four were volunteers at the Great Lakes American Red Cross. As a Naval

I’m the product of a large single income family of ten. My mother, as you can imagine, was thrifty out of necessity. She patched worn

I’ve been feeling the need to express myself more fully than the little squares of Instagram allow. I know I’m late getting onboard the blogging train but here I am writing my very first blog post at age