Spring 2024
In a space designed for storytelling, we decided to bring you the various avenues that storytellers utilize to share their passions with the Baylor University and Waco community.
Umpire Lupe Rosas stands ready atop the pitcher’s mound. While the boy at bat prepares to swing, Coach Colleen Ostrom shouts words of encouragement from the dugout. And for a moment in the sun, the Challenger League baseball team, for children with special needs, appears like a regular baseball game — because it is.
To Jeane Dick, the leader of Mission Waco’s Friday Morning Breakfast, all who come through the church doors on Friday morning are family.
Stranded and low on cash after icy conditions left his group unable to fly home from a 1996 weekend trip to Big Bend National Park, Rick Caywood was in a prime position to be confronted with his fourth major career change. He just didn’t know it yet.
What constitutes a meaningful life? It is the question humanity has pondered through the ages, one that touches the core of every human heart. So significantly weighs the subject — the quest for meaning and happiness — that it has birthed numerous experiments, years of research and a plethora of diverse philosophies.
A Waco ballet instructor at the Deborah Korpi School of Classical Ballet announces that it’s time for class and four students, ages 5 to 7 form a single line and enter the ballet studio as they walk gracefully on their tiptoes. The ballerinas performed exactly as she instructed, without any objections or complaints, as they…