There is no such thing as an ordinary life. Look deep, go back to any person's beginnings, and you will discover the saint and the sinner who reside in each of us. You will find adventure and love, hope and loss, flashes of unimaginable beauty, and waves of unbearable darkness. It's all there. Inside everybody. The problem, of course, is that most people do not have the courage, or the will, or the time, to share it all. Their stories get buried with them."Salem, Oregon, present day. 82 year old Martin Forrestal is dying. A humble man, he intends to make his exit with as much grace as possible. But, he has no intention of seeing his life stories get lowered 6 feet into the cold earth along with him. The day the doctor tells Martin that his time is near, he takes up his digital recorder. As his life ebbs slowly away, Martin recounts the people, events and places that marked his passage through life.From a freak summer avalanche that trapped young Martin and his friends in an icy cave in the Cascade Mountains, to the blistering coral sands of a tiny island in the Pacific where he fought in some of WW II' s bloodiest combat, Martin's journey comes to life, story by unforgettable story. A frontier Christmas miracle, an impassioned and dangerous race across the sweeping Argentine pampas, and the most hilarious wood-stacking contest ever witnessed. Grandfather Jake and his Montana neighbors riding off on horseback to stop the sheriff from foreclosing on farms at the height of the Depression, and a rumpled old man with a huge bouquet of flowers who gives up what matters most to him so that Martin can make a good impression on his first date.Told from Martin's perspective in the final days of his life, Martin's Way is a moving and honest account of love and sacrifice, faith and forgiveness, honor, determination, and the enduring gifts and challenges that life visits upon each of us.