by peteblack4ua@gmail.com | Jan 18, 2019 | Chasing Your Dream
March 1964 – Sevier County High School – Sevierville, Tennessee: She was nervous. At the school assembly, the seniors had been asked an interesting question, “What are you going to do in your life after high school?” Several students had already stood up when she...
by peteblack4ua@gmail.com | Jan 4, 2019 | Adversity, Chasing Your Dream, Tests and Trials
May 27, 1936 – Salinas, California: John Steinbeck reluctantly pinned the letter to his editor Elizabeth Otis. “My Irish Setter pup, Toby, left alone one night made confetti of my manuscript. I was pretty mad, but the poor little fellow may have been acting...
by peteblack4ua@gmail.com | Nov 26, 2018 | Adversity, Chasing Your Dream, Never Give Up
December 12, 1969 – M.D Anderson Cancer Institute in Houston, Texas: Doctors amputated Freddie Steinmark’s left leg at the hip. What he had hoped was a deep thigh bruise had been diagnosed as osteogenic sarcoma, a deadly form of bone cancer. Just six days before...
by peteblack4ua@gmail.com | Nov 19, 2018 | Chasing Your Dream, Hanging on to Hope, Refusing to Quit
1984 – Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: Night after night Max sat at his desk working on his book. While he wrote, his wife, Denalyn, sat on the sofa doing cross-stitch. Writing a book had been a dream for Max. As a young pastor in Miami for two years, he had gotten plenty of...
by peteblack4ua@gmail.com | Nov 5, 2018 | Chasing Your Dream, Determination Despite the Odds, Never Lose Heart
Early 2005, Pershing Park – Los Angeles, California: Steve Lopez, a reporter for the Los Angeles Times was rushing back to the office to meet a deadline when he came upon a strange site. On a busy street corner across from a statue of Beethoven, a middle-aged black...
by peteblack4ua@gmail.com | Oct 22, 2018 | Chasing Your Dream, Perserverance, Refusing to Quit
November 7, 1939 – New Britain, Connecticut: Korczak Ziolkowski received a letter from Henry Standing Bear, a Lakota Indian Chief in the Black Hills of South Dakota. It began, “My fellow chiefs and I would like the white man to know that the red man has great heroes,...
