by Beth Lueders | Oct 22, 2020 | Blog Post, Everyday People, Resilience
If you’re like me, you loved the movie Hidden Figures, the remarkable story of African-American female mathematicians who helped turn around America’s space program. Let me introduce you to a few hidden figures of American baseball, the Brown Bombers. You’re going to...
by Beth Lueders | Oct 1, 2020 | Blog Post, Everyday People, Perspective
Lucy Moments. We all have them. Yep. Me especially at times. My friend Terry calls Lucy Moments those situations when we goof up, forget, look a bit foolish, and just need to laugh at ourselves. These little blunder and flub experiences are based on the ditzy...
by Beth Lueders | Sep 24, 2020 | Blog Post, Everyday People, Perspective
You’ve heard the adage “you’re never too old to change.” Some of us doubt that. Others of us are living proof that change is possible no matter how many birthdays we’ve celebrated. Pearl is one of these never-too-old-to-change gals. I met her when she was eighty-seven...
by Beth Lueders | Sep 10, 2020 | Blog Post, Everyday People
I am a softie for the underdog. How about you? On our elementary playground, my friends and I would yell at some rogue boys we didn’t like. They wanted us to feel like the underdog. “Sticks and stones may break my bones,” we shouted, “but words will never...
by Beth Lueders | Sep 4, 2020 | Blog Post, Everyday People, Perspective
People often ask, “So where did you grow up?” I often reply, “A gas station.” Yep, “fill ‘er up” were some of the first words I ever heard. My parents’ full-service gas station was the kind of small-town garage similar to Wally’s Filling Station on The Andy Griffith...
by Beth Lueders | Aug 20, 2020 | Blog Post, Everyday People
Detours and delays can bring out the worst in us. Another slowdown? Another rerouting of plans? Come on! We have got places to go and people to see. Who really has time to downshift and head in another direction when the route you’ve mapped out is perfectly fine?...
