Blessing New Boston

Blessing New Boston

From a young age, Beth Little has been passionate about caring for living creatures. As a young person, she took care of friends’ pets in her parents garage and then spent time before and after school working at a veterinary office. After high school, Beth began working with Dr. Randall Murray, a local veterinarian. When he decided to open his own practice in 1989, he took Beth with him, and together they opened Westridge Animal Hospital.

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Kicking Cancer's Butt

Kicking Cancer's Butt

Life-threatening illness is a facet of reality that seems inescapable. Heart disease and cancer are the leading causes of death in the U.S. While it would be convenient to imagine these as things that come for us in old age, after a life well lived, most of us are all too aware that a person could come face-to-face with something like cancer at any point in life. When it happened to Melissa Hanneman, it almost seemed as if she’d finally met an inevitability.

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A Spark for the Arts

A Spark for the Arts

At 71, Kay Thomas is busier—and bolder—than ever. A lifelong artist, educator, provocateur, and national arts integration specialist, Kay doesn’t show any signs of slowing down. In fact, she seems to be hitting a new creative stride.

“I’m at the top of my game,” she said. “I know how to build pretty much anything I want to build. It’s just—do I have the strength to do it? But I never expected my career to explode with such success at age 71.”

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A World Of Welcome

A World Of Welcome

For Camille Sherman, the world got pleasantly smaller when she welcomed a 15-year-old boy from Denmark into her home. In 2022, Camille and her husband, Kevin, had flown out from their hometown of Atlanta, Texas, to join a business trip with Kevin’s boss. During the trip, Camille recalled, the boss was completing paperwork to host an exchange student and asked if he could list the Shermans as a reference. “The very next day, the coordinator called and talked to Kevin,” Camille said. “He asked if we would be willing to host. So we got our first exchange student in the school year of ‘22 to ‘23. His name was Alexander Bodholdt, from Denmark.”

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