by peteblack4ua@gmail.com | Oct 3, 2017 | Beating the Odds, Hanging on to Hope
Ramona Pierson’s father died of a heart attack when she was 12 years old and afterwards she was mostly on her own, essentially abandoned by her alcoholic mother. At age 16, with the assistance of a school guidance counselor and the aid of a full Marine Corps...
by peteblack4ua@gmail.com | Aug 17, 2017 | Adversity, Beating the Odds, Overcoming Adversity
In October 1988, science fiction writer Thomas Disch was working as a contractor for Walt Disney Studios. While eating lunch one day, he envisioned the original idea for the movie The Lion King. He began writing the script, which he titled King of the Kalahari, and a...
