Publisher's Synopsis
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 built in 1906. He retired from the federal government in 2008. It was in this year that Padgal started writing his first novel 'FireDance' which he finished and had published in 2010. In his novel, Padgal demonstrates how to use forgiveness as a healing tool and offers viable steps for the individual who has difficulty forgiving anyone for anything. Fire Dance has, elements of humor, suspense, crisis and cure. .
