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1. Early on, Barbara Cook Spencer's life revolved around art, and some of her paintings appeared in New York galleries when she was as young as fifteen.

MY PARENTS DIVORCED when I was about nine years old. Even before the divorce, my younger sister and I didn't see our dad as often as we hoped because he was a career military officer who had duties all over the world.

ONE AFTERNOON LAST APRIL, I pulled into the parking lot of a convenience store and began to get out of the car when a man approached me. He had a knife and forced himself into my car, making me switch to the passenger's seat.

WHEN I WAS A LITTLE GIRL I always prayed to God. He was like a companion, but I didn't understand who God was.

Tenacity's summer tennis and reading program serves roughly 4,500 Boston youth annually between the ages of seven and fifteen. With a full-time staff of 40, each summer Tenacity hires 200 additional people to deliver the summer program at 30 neighborhood-based sites.

ON A RAINY GRAY MORNING IN DECEMBER , I found CEO Ned Eames early at work in his corner office. However, the view from his window doesn't look down to a sprawling city below.

LAST YEAR on a Saturday morning in December, Bobby Lewis, outfitted in winter mountaineering gear, hoisted a pack on his back and set off with a colleague on a difficult peak climb in the Colorado Rockies. They began their ascent in formidable winter weather conditions: below zero temperatures, howling winds, snow—and three high school students in tow.

Progress. One definition includes the meaning "moving.

I SAT IN MY DORM ROOM staring staring down at a page of text and feeling lost. Everything seemed just too familiar—the posters above my bed, my potted plant, the bookshelf, and the words I was reading in the weekly Bible Lesson.

MAYBE YOU KNOW THE OLD JOKE: A pedestrian in New York City asks a passerby how to get to the well-known Carnegie Hall. The person replies, not with directions to a street address, but with the answer, "Practice, practice, practice.