by peteblack4ua@gmail.com | Sep 16, 2021 | Chasing Your Dream, Iron-willed, Long Shots
2013 – Los Angeles, California: In 2013, Matthew Barnett had chest pains while playing in a church softball game and was diagnosed with a pulmonary embolism. The doctor told him, “You’re going to live, but you will never run a marathon.” This was fine with Barnett...
by peteblack4ua@gmail.com | Sep 6, 2021 | Adversity, Chasing Your Dream, Limitless Possibilities, Uncategorized
1964 – Ackerman, Mississippi: Seventeen-year-old Cheryl Prewitt told her father she was thinking about entering the Miss Choctaw County pageant. “No daughter of mine is going to parade herself around on stage in front of a bunch of strangers in a beauty contest. I...
by peteblack4ua@gmail.com | Aug 2, 2021 | Adversity, Chasing Your Dream, Determination Despite the Odds, Iron-willed
October 19, 1968 – Mexico City, Mexico: A light rain had begun falling in the late afternoon making the mid-50’s temperature seem even colder. The lights were on at Olympic Stadium as the athletes prepared for the high jump, the final event in the two-day decathlon...
by peteblack4ua@gmail.com | Jul 19, 2021 | Chasing Your Dream, Determination Despite the Odds, Rising Above Circumstances
Summer 2011 – Radford, Virginia: Josh received the admissions letter from Radford University physics department chairman Dr. Rhett Herman with the news he would not be able to enroll in physics. Josh had never taken high school trigonometry, a prerequisite for a...
by peteblack4ua@gmail.com | Jun 21, 2021 | Chasing Your Dream, Enhanced Perspective, Overcoming Adversity
June 21, 2011 – Petco Park Stadium, San Diego, California: San Diego Padres pitcher Wade LeBlanc listened to the voice mail informing him he was going back to the Padres’ Triple-A team in Tucson, Arizona. It was the eighth time in three years he had been sent down to...
by peteblack4ua@gmail.com | Apr 29, 2021 | Adversity, Chasing Your Dream, Limitless Possibilities
Early 1837 – New York City: For several years Samuel Morse had hoped to paint four historical murals for the Capitol Rotunda in Washington, D.C. Not only would the project be the pinnacle of his successful career, but it would also pay him $10,000. When Morse finally...
