Tag archives for inspirational
Book Blast! Framing A Life – A Memoir
On a blustery Maine day, 39-year-old Roberta S. Kuriloff found herself standing on a plot of land purchased with her former partner, holding a couple of wood stakes to mark off exactly where her new house would sit. No longer their land. No longer their dream. Now, just hers. Immersed…
BOOK BLAST! Blue Ice, Sudden Death Climbing To The Summit of Humility
By Val Jon Farris At 11,000 feet my ice-crampon pops off my left boot and I careen down the steep glacier towards a deadly crevasse. The climb team forms a human net and catches me just a few feet before I slide into the abyss. “Hold on buddy, we’ve got…
Anzac Day
I originally wrote this post way back in 2012 and it still resonates today, and each and every ANZAC day. I wanted to write something for Anzac Day. For those lives on either side taken too early, in pain or in an instant, soldier or civilian. Fighting for wars past…