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Deo’s Story – Monroe Journal – April 15, 2024
“The life I touch for good or ill will touch another life, and in turn another, until who knows where the trembling stops or in what far place my touch will be felt.” Frederick Buechner June 1994 – New York City:...
Old Dog has New Job – Monroe Journal – April 8, 2024
“The worst thing that happens to you may be the best thing for you if you don’t let it get the best of you.” Will Rogers 2009 – Worchester, Massachusetts: Michael Vaudreuil made the cold walk to his small apartment after his second...
L.M. Alcott – Monroe Journal – April 1, 2024
“Nothing is impossible to the determined woman.” Louisa May Alcott 1860 – Concord, Massachusetts: The Atlantic magazine editor, James Lowell had published a couple of short stories by 27-year-old schoolteacher Louisa May Alcott. He liked her writing. But a year...
Mary Kay – Monroe Journal – March 25, 2024
“Within you lies everything you ever dreamed of being. You can become everything that God wants you to be. It’s within your reach. Dare to grow into your dreams.” Mary Kay Ash August 1963 –...
Miss Van Lew – Monroe Journal – March 18, 2024
“You have to focus on what needs to be done – always do the right thing, not the popular thing.” David Cameron Fall 1861 – Confederate Capital, Richmond, Virginia: Elizabeth Van Lew walked a few blocks from...
The Mother of Radiation – Monroe Journal – March 11, 2024
“I was taught that the way of progress was neither swift nor easy.” Marie Curie 1885 – Warsaw, Poland. “Papa, it’s not fair,” cried Marie. “I am smarter than all the boys in my class. I graduated at the top of my class, but there is no need to apply to the University...
Bigger than Tennis – Monroe Journal – March 7, 2024
“If I were to say, ‘God, why me?’ about the bad things that happened in my life, then I should say, ‘God, why me?’ about the good things that happened.” Arthur Ashe December 1, 1975 – Grand Prix Masters Tennis – Stockholm, Sweden: The large crowd sat stunned....
The Woman Behind the Gown – Monroe Journal – February 26, 2024
“You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.” Margaret Thatcher September 13, 1953 – Newport, Rhode Island: Newspapers dubbed it the wedding of the century. A photo of the newlyweds ran on the front page of the New York Times. Jacqueline Bouvier, a...
Pea Island – Monroe Journal – February 19, 2024
“God will not look us over for medals, degrees, or diplomas, but for scars.” Elbert Hubbard Pea Island, North Carolina, June 1878: On the day that 38-year-old Richard Etheredge arrived at...
Hopeless in Colorado – Monroe Journal – February 12, 2024
“Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances that we know to be desperate.” G. K. Chesterton Fall 1986 – National Jewish Senior Facility – Denver, Colorado: Ramona Pierson wasn’t...
