Applying this simple practice will enhance your life and lead to other positive changes. Four simple words, one terrific life. Walk more, eat less.
Meet my heroes.
Dallas Derringer
He's 10 years old. He has a bright disposition. He inspires others. He loves to make people laugh. He has autism. He doesn't make excuses for it. He just keeps on being the best he can be.
William E. McAnulty
My friend Bill McAnulty was hilarious. He always had a quip at the ready and knew how to lift a person's spirits with a mischievous smile. You could always count on him to add joy to any gathering.
He was crazy in love with his wife and children, and dispensed justice with a gentle touch.
He rose through the ranks from juvenile court judge to circuit judge to the court of appeals and ultimately made it to the top, named a justice on the Kentucky Supreme Court in 2006.
He fought brain cancer in 2007 and succumbed on August 24, but not before warning the public to avoid cigarette smoking, saying it was "time to pay the piper."
In typical McAnulty fashion, he quipped to his neurosurgeon that he feared his upcoming brain surgery because he might "wake up and be Clarence Thomas or a UK fan."
Justice McAnulty left me a humorous, touching, and hopeful voice mail several weeks before his death. Click the icon at left to hear it.
We never got to go out and play the next golf match he envisioned, but I hope he's hitting birdies and long drives in Heaven today.
Kaziah the goat woman, born into Utah polygamy, has freed her brain and now honors fallen U.S. soldiers.
Ernie Marx
A survivor of the World War II holocaust in Germany and France, Mr. Marx retold his story hundreds of times to educate Louisville schoolchildren. He also accompanied many groups to the Holocaust Memorial in Washington to give a firsthand account of Nazi atrocities today's visitors see only in photographs.
I was lucky enough to meet Mr. Marks when both of us were chosen to be Olympic Torchbearers during its relay segment through Louisville on December 16, 2001.
I will never forget his charm, grace, elegance, and his profound understanding of the value of life.
As a kid, I sat in my room spinning 45s on a little turntable and pretended that I was Bill Bailey, Louisville's most gifted radio personality ever.
We've gotten to be great friends over the years. Bill has encouraged me in countless ways by giving me his insights, teaching me to avoid the pitfalls he faced, and to savor every day of my life.
Rich guy lives The Life. Rich guy slowly loses The Life. Rich guy isn't so rich anymore and must start his life all over in his mid-50s.
Formerly rich guy learns what it's like to be a Regular Guy.
We all take punches in life. The trick is to keep crawling through the pipe toward the light of happiness. It is there if you work for it.
Life is sweet. Savor every second.
This Mission: Truly Accomplished
He ran 131 full marathons on 131 consecutive days. He raised money for the Injured Marines Semper Fi Fund.
BRAD ALSOP
is a road warrior like no other.
Triathlon trainer raises money and awareness of pregnancy cancer with Mom's Lasagna
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