The evening sparkled with excitement as I was escorted across the grand ballroom at Union Station in Chicago to meet Roger Ebert. Known as the first film critic to win a Pulitzer Prize and credited by Forbes as “the most powerful pundit in America,” Ebert had encouraged Oprah to take her show into syndication and [...]
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Tag Archive: inspiration
I Am Second
Many people have asked me to share the story of how my faith in God helped me face breast cancer as a young woman 30 years ago. That faith has become the sustaining strength of my life. Over the years, when something bad happened to me, instead of dwelling on it, I have always tried [...]
NYC-Big City Taking a Nap
On the flight descent into NYC, I longingly looked out the window in the direction of the ghost Twin Towers. My heart always hurts a bit when I see the obvious absence of the great landmarks of NYC. New York has been a favorite city of mine for some time now. I was introduced to [...]
Make the Best Music-Itzhak Perlman
Reigning Virtuoso of the Violin Classical violinist Itzhak Perlman, world renowned as the reigning virtuoso of the violin, can bring you to tears with his perfected technique and joy of music as he plays. His honors and awards are so numerous, that I can only tell you about a few of them. He has appeared [...]