Donna Larkin is a former public affairs writer who earned a master’s degree in education and distance learning. This educational background instilled in her a problem-solving approach to every challenge she has taken on, including caregiving. She grew up in a suburb of New York City and lived in San Francisco and Los Angeles for eight years before establishing a home in Idaho to raise her family. Donna and her husband, Lee, had nearly twenty-five blessed years together before he passed away of Alzheimer’s disease in 2018.