Maureen Lang grew up as one of the youngest in a six-kid, boisterously loud German-Irish family in the suburbs of Chicago. Eight of them in a house with only one bathroom! They didn't really argue, although just to be heard over all the noise it might have seemed that way to an outsider.
So whom did she marry? A quiet, reserved son of a German brick layer. While her family gathering decibels would compare to the lift off of a jet from nearby O'Hare, his family gatherings would register more like the soft rustling of oak leaves.
She grew up loving to tell stories, and God has blessed her immeasurably to be able to tell them to a wider audience these days.