After graduating from Case Western Reserve as an English major, Paul Martin spent the last forty-four years fixing bicycles, making violins, restoring furniture, assisting patients as a nurse’s aide, writing hospice life journals, and collecting stories. As a Third Order Franciscan, he has used the Lectio Divina and Ignatian meditation to listen to God. Married for over forty years, he and his wife have two grown children and three grandchildren.