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...
2003 – London, England: Rosalind Savage was divorced, overweight and out of shape. She had spent the past 11 years working in a cubicle for a London computer company and hated her job and miserable life. One day at work she wrote two obituaries. The first one about...
New Years Day, 1997 – Outback Bowl – Tampa, Florida: It had been a long, emotion-filled day for Alabama Head Football Coach Gene Stallings who had just coached his final college football game. His Crimson Tide team had earned a hard-fought 17-14 win over the...
October 1, 1987 – Salem Hospital – Salem, Illinois: The baby was born without legs. Her Romanian-immigrant parents were shocked and overwhelmed. There was no money or insurance to raise a handicapped child, so they abandoned the baby in the hospital. The following...
September 7, 1854 – London, England: The most dreaded disease of the age, cholera, was back with a vengeance. There were more caskets than the horse-drawn hearse wagons could carry away. In Soho, one of London’s poorest neighborhoods, more than 500 people died in five...
1976 – Clanton, Alabama: The phone rang. “Oh Lord, no! Nannie B is gone. She shot herself,” screamed her grandmother. Five-year-old Liz was too young to understand what had happened. But she and her four-year-old sister cried anyway. Liz spent her early...
