Inspirations are always around us. Here are a few people who inspire me every day. Click on a headshot to read more about each individual.
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Like everyone else, I'm aware I need to build social media to reach an audience for my upcoming book, "Broken Melody." But I don't feel comfortable in pictures...
Helen Sarver was not ordinary. She possessed inner beauty paired with timeless grace. Her optimistic perspective and wit demonstrated to us all that you can survive hard...
Antrea Dowd has spent more than 30 years in healthcare, and she jokes that her resume started at 14 years old, when she was a candy striper. Early exposure to patient care...
Music found him early. Raised by a single parent, he grew up copying down lyrics and reciting them for fun, mimicking the icons who shaped him: Peter Tosh, Bob Ma...
She is the baby of the family, and she lights up every room she enters. Raised in Ellville, Georgia, where life during the Depression wasn't easy and money was never plentiful...
I didn't write these words — his grandchildren did. But when I read them, I couldn't keep them to myself. This is their tribute to their tete, offered here exactly as they...
Thirty years ago, Julie Wang walked into American Career College and became part of something we now call "the original culture" — the foundation of family, teamwork...
Dr. Kushagra Verma’s story began when his family immigrated to the United States in the 1980’s with two hundred dollars and two suitcases. His father, a PhD...
My husband refused to join me, so I went with my close friend Bonnie. Her heart suffered enough for both of us. She canceled her Disneyland plans to give me moral...
Larry Sarver, a private man and middle child, was an innovator, a champion, and possessed unwavering spirit. He didn't waste words. When he spoke, warmth and...
The artist, Stylis, designs musical masterpieces using words as his paintbrush and the world as his palette. His rap style is poetry in motion, combining innovation with fluidity...
Judy Harkin was a spontaneous and loving spirit. She never left home without her teased red hair and overdone make up. She celebrated every holiday as if it were her...
Ezel Cook Sr is a man steadfast in his opinion who hates cold food, likes to roll his sleeves under, and says grace before every meal. Born in 1935, when Roosevelt...
Flor, a forty-year-old Hispanic immigrant, came to the United States at age eleven. To teach herself English, she read newspaper articles in front of the mirror...
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