by peteblack4ua@gmail.com | Aug 18, 2020 | Long Shots, Overcoming Adversity, Overcoming Failure
1955 – Pittsburg, Pennsylvania: Some diseases killed, polio crippled children for a lifetime. Since the first epidemic in the summer of 1894 in Vermont, polio had become the disease most feared by parents. It struck children without warning, frequently causing muscle...
by peteblack4ua@gmail.com | Aug 10, 2020 | Against the Odds, Never Give Up, Overcoming Failure
August 3, 2008 – Kwajalein Atoll, South Pacific Ocean: On a tiny 8-acre island, almost 5,000 miles southwest of Honolulu, his 70-foot tall Falcon 1 rocket sat on the launch pad. Liftoff was perfect and at nine miles up the first stage separation was also perfect. Then...
by peteblack4ua@gmail.com | Jul 9, 2018 | Adversity, Finding Hope, Overcoming Failure, Uncategorized
July 9, 1974 – Maxwell Air Force Base, Montgomery, Alabama: He arrived at the federal minimum security prison at Maxwell to begin serving his three-year sentence. It was a somber day, full of remorse and remembering. At 38-years-old he had been on top of the...
by peteblack4ua@gmail.com | Oct 17, 2017 | Overcoming Failure, Success
No, not that F word – shame on some of you. Fail – it’s a four-letter word that we’re all too familiar with. We worry about doing it, do everything we can to avoid it, and when it happens it makes us feel downright awful about ourselves. It doesn’t matter what...
