Having trouble hanging in there? Maybe as you go into 2023 you feel like you are leaking stamina, and you are giving way to giving up. If that’s you, read this. Making history On December 17, 1903, at 10:35 AM, two brothers made history and changed the way the world travels. And it took only 12 seconds. Well, sort of. Wilbur Wright stood on the sandy shore of Kitty Hawk, NC, and watched his brother,…
Most of us were asleep on the other side of the world when Xia Boyu, a Chinese national reached the summit of Mt. Everest May 14. Impressive for anyone, but even more so for a sixty-nine-year-old double amputee. And, get this. This was Xia’s fifth attempt to scale the world’s highest peak, and it was on one of his earlier expeditions that he lost his lower legs to frostbite after lending his sleeping bag to…