Spreading the Message of HOPE A massive brain tumor snatched part of my hearing and almost took my life in 2006 while pregnant with my fourth child. I was away on medical leave for six weeks in New York City. Days after returning home to my children in Panama City, Panama, my youngest brother committed […]
I always wanted to write a book. For years, I have worked with youth as a teacher and coach. My passion is empowering young people, especially boys, to reach their full potential in education and in life. My dream is to see people live uncommon in a common world—to live a life of purpose and […]
You must have tenacity I have worked more than 21 years in a highly technical field in Corporate America as a sales engineer. Since I was ten, I wanted to be on the daytime soap General Hospital. I was inspired by Rick Springfield. What made you decide to finally realize your lifelong dream? After age […]
Persistence is Paramount to Success I’m in my late 60s and published my first book when I was 58. In grade school, I loved to write poems and at camp and college penned long letters to friends. I enjoyed writing and hoped to some day write something worthwhile that would be published. I’m a psychotherapist […]
Nothing Ventured…Nothing Gained I had dreams but I had to be practical. I majored in computer science so I could get a good paying job. I loved programming and designing computer systems, but I still longed for the day I could pursue what I really wanted to do—be an artist and author. I always loved […]
Think of Perfect Moments I was 42 and no one’s idea of an athlete when I bought Eli, my first horse. He was six, and no one’s idea of a beginner’s horse. He was a Thoroughbred—a racehorse—who’d been brought to the barn, where I’d been taking lessons, as a prospect for somebody else. The racehorse […]
Setbacks win awards As a youngster I always dreamed of being a writer. I wrote stuff, got pretty good grades in English, and then at 21, joined the U.S. Air Force. My writing went on hold for nearly two decades. Then, one year after a particularly painful ankle surgery, I decided to pick up my […]
Photo: Marc Renson (left) and Robert Irvine the Food Network’s “Restaurant Impossible” The doors will open up… Since I was five, I’ve loved Hollywood. I enjoyed watching Donny and Marie, Sonny and Cher… Since I was ten, I’ve loved the movie 9 to 5 with Dolly Parton. Finally tying all this together…since I was 16, […]
It is never too late to revive a dream When I applied for a job as a writer for Good Housekeeping (Hearst Corporation) in New York in 1961, I was required to take a typing test. I was piqued because I wasn’t applying for the typing-pool, I was applying for a post as an editorial […]
Crusading Novelist I always dreamed of being a writer, but work and family responsibilities got in the way. When I was 45 and my husband said, “I just saw there’s a writers’ workshop at the library, and I know you’ve wanted to write since you were a kid. You should go for it now!” So […]
Blindness doesn’t deter dreams In 1970, while a Sergeant in the Army, I was shot in the head during a combat mission in Vietnam. It left me with bullet fragments in my head and severe migraines. Twenty-three years later, in 1993, the fragments caused a stroke in my visual cortex, leaving me suddenly and legally […]
Overcoming limiting beliefs Photo left to right: Montrie Rucker Adams, competitors—March 31, 2012. I was too young to know why, but from those few visits, I decided that a successful business owner is what I wanted to become. I carried that feeling for years, not acting on it, but always thinking about it. Each career […]
