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The Foster Care Kid – Monroe Journal – May 8, 2017
“How it is, isn't how it has to be - it is simply how it is right now. Your possibilities are as limitless as your dreams.” James Richardson 1985 – Pensacola, Florida: At midnight, 13-year-old Jimmy Wayne Barber sat alone in the bus station. Before...
A Discouraging Season – Monroe Journal – February 23, 2017
“Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be.” John Wooden 1933 – Dayton High School – Dayton, Kentucky: The sports editor of the Dayton High School yearbook was critical of the first-year basketball coach. “A discouraging season,” the annual said...
Defying the Odds – Monroe Journal – June 15, 2017
“However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at. My advice to other disabled people would be concentrate on things your disability doesn't prevent you doing well, and don't regret the things it interferes with. Don't be disabled...
Thanking the Seagulls – Monroe Journal – Sept 10, 2020
“The biggest lesson I ever learned was while drifting on a raft in the South Pacific for 24 days with my buddies. If you have all the fresh water you want to drink and all the food you want to eat, you ought never to complain about anything.” Eddie...
Forgiveness – Monroe Journal – November 18, 2021
January 27, 1986 – Morton Thiokol Plant - Brigham City, Utah: In the early afternoon, Bob Ebeling called Allan McDonald, the Morton Thiokol engineer in charge of the solid rocket project at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Ebeling pleaded with McDonald to postpone...
Why Do You Talk Funny? – Monroe Journal – November 11, 2021
November 2015 – Highlands Ranch, Colorado: Michele Cushatt had enjoyed a wonderful dinner at a favorite restaurant on a beautiful fall evening. It was her first time out in months. After dinner, Michele bumped into an old friend outside the restaurant. Their...
His Gift Made a Way – Monroe Journal – June 20, 2017
October 1970 – Gadsden, Alabama: Gordon Mote’s parents were determined that blindness would not keep him, or his brother Michael, also born blind, from having a normal childhood. At Thanksgiving when he was three, Gordon sat down at his grandmother’s piano and...
My Home’s in Alabama – Monroe Journal – Nov 10, 2016
“When you set out to do something great, most people will not see what you see. Don’t allow their version of how your life should turn out to affect you. You will have to do what they are not willing to do.” Andy Andrews 1972 – Jacksonville...
Graveyard Shift at Robsham Hall – Monroe Journal – Sept 8, 2016
3:00 a.m., April 9, 2016 - Robsham Theater Arts Center, Boston College: The campus is quiet and deserted. Fred, the graveyard shift janitor, pushes his cart carrying his mop, broom, and cleaning supplies from room to room. His job is monotonous and not real...
Hakuna Matata – Monroe Journal – Jun 29, 2017
October 1988 – Walt Disney Studios – Los Angeles, California: While eating lunch at his desk, science fiction writer Thomas Disch, got an idea for an unusual animation movie. Why not adapt Shakespeare’s play Hamlet to be performed by lions in Africa. A contract writer...
