by peteblack4ua@gmail.com | Jan 8, 2018 | Chasing Your Dream, Never Lose Heart, Refusing to Quit
December 2011, Mt. Kilimanjaro Base Camp, Nalemoru, Tanzania: The porters and guides gawked and giggled. They had never seen a climber this large on Mt. Kilimanjaro. They called her Mama Kubwa, Swahili for ‘big woman.’ At 300 pounds, Kara Whitely was the biggest woman...
by peteblack4ua@gmail.com | Dec 27, 2017 | Iron-willed, Never Lose Heart, Overcoming Adversity
1401 A.D. London, England: King Henry IV declared that religious heretics would be burned at the stake. Seven years later, the Roman Catholic Church, at that time England’s official church, used its considerable influence to have a law passed that made it a crime to...
by peteblack4ua@gmail.com | Oct 19, 2017 | Never Lose Heart, Rising Above Circumstances
Laura Story grew up in Spartanburg, South Carolina. She loved to play the piano and in high school learned to play guitar and bass fiddle. Her talents earned her a musical scholarship at the University of South Carolina. After one year, she transferred across town to...
by peteblack4ua@gmail.com | Oct 13, 2017 | Beating the Odds, Never Lose Heart, Overcoming Obstacles
On October 28, 1953, at St. Bernard Hospital in Jonesboro, Arkansas, a baby boy was stillborn. The nurse wrapped his cold, blue body in a blanket and placed it on a table in the corner of the delivery room as she went about cleaning up. Busy with her tasks, she passed...
by peteblack4ua@gmail.com | Aug 24, 2017 | Adversity, Getting Fired, Never Lose Heart, Refusing to Quit
On June 16, 1995, St. Louis Cardinals baseball team manager Joe Torre was at home when he got a call from team General Manager Walt Jocketty saying he was on his way to Torre’s house. Torre turned to his wife, Ali, and said, “I think we’re getting fired here.” After...
