To talk about what 2017 meant in the life of the Doolittle family, we have to travel back to April 12, 2016. Martha‘s 57th birthday. She took a day off and drove to the north side of Houston to visit her therapist. She intended to return home, pick me up, and together we would get Dorothy from school. Then celebrate Martha‘s birthday at Grace’s restaurant on Kirby. In the middle of the afternoon my cell phone rang; it was Martha.…