https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/tags/one-day-in-the-life-of/ Recent content in One Day in the Life of on Life In Good Measure Hugo -- gohugo.io en-us Sat, 25 Feb 2023 08:11:00 +0000 https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/one-day-in-the-life-of-betty-lou-oliver/ Sat, 25 Feb 2023 08:11:00 +0000 https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/one-day-in-the-life-of-betty-lou-oliver/ Betty Lou Oliver, who had recently turned twenty, was working as an elevator operator for the Empire State Building that fateful day July 28, 1945. She was on the 80th story as a B-25, piloted by Captain William Smith, was heading straight for the building through the heavy fog over New York. At the time, the Empire State Building was the tallest in the world. The plane would crash into the 79th floor, one floor from where Betty was at that moment. https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/one-day-in-the-life-of-richard-the-lionheart/ Tue, 25 May 2021 08:11:00 +0000 https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/one-day-in-the-life-of-richard-the-lionheart/ Statue of Richard the Lionheart in front of the British Parliament in London. Photo credit Alex-David Baldi Two of Europe’s most powerful rulers - Richard I of England (perhaps better known as Richard the Lionheart) and King Philip I of France, had met on the banks of the river Seine on January 13th, 1199, and made a truce. With a peace secured, Richard is now able to refocus on bringing internal order to the south of the Angevin Empire (i. https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/one-day-in-the-life-of-christopher-haley/ Wed, 25 Dec 2019 08:11:27 +0000 https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/one-day-in-the-life-of-christopher-haley/ Another one in our article series One Day in the Life of. November 24th, 2018 was supposed to be just another Saturday night for pastor Christopher Haley from Winnipeg as he was watching the match between Winnipeg Jets and hometeam St. Louis Blues at Enterprise Center in St. Louis, Missouri. The Canadian supermarket chain Safeway (owned by Sobeys) has a continual promotion called “Score & Win” where it randomly selects a shopper to potentially win prizes for a player’s achievements. https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/one-day-in-the-life-of-sirkka-sari/ Thu, 01 Aug 2019 07:09:08 +0000 https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/one-day-in-the-life-of-sirkka-sari/ Some eighty years ago, on the 30th of July in 1939, a young aspiring actress by the name of Sirkka Sari decides to go on the rooftop of the hotel that she’s staying at with the rest of the film crew. They have just finished filming Rich Girl where she played the leading role, and now a bit of a celebration is in order. Having seen the tall tower on top of the hotel, Sirkka decides to go and get a better look at the surrounding areas. https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/one-day-in-the-life-of-maria-elisabeth-lammerhirt/ Tue, 25 Dec 2018 08:53:19 +0000 https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/one-day-in-the-life-of-maria-elisabeth-lammerhirt/ It is Wednesday, the 8th of April, 1668. Maria Elisabeth Lämmerhirt, daughter of a furrier and coachman in the German city of Erfurt, is about to marry Johann whom she has known since childhood. The wedding will take place in the old church, Kaufmannkirche, in Erfurt. Little does she know what impact that decision is going to have on the world. She is 24, he 23 years of age. Her future husband is a musician, and the home they will be sharing will one day be full of music! https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/one-day-in-the-life-of-2/ Fri, 02 Nov 2018 10:11:08 +0000 https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/one-day-in-the-life-of-2/ Welcome to another one in the series One Day in the Life of … of people from all walks of life. If we live to be 80, we have lived around 29,200 days. We get to 10,000 days at the age of 27. So there are plenty of days for all kinds of things to happen. Something spectacular. Something life-changing. Or just a pretty ordinary day that still held something very memorable. https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/one-day-in-the-life-of-xxx/ Mon, 25 Jun 2018 03:50:12 +0000 https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/one-day-in-the-life-of-xxx/ This is the first in the series One Day in the Life of … of people from all walks of life. If we live to be 80, we have lived around 29,200 days. We get to 10,000 days at the age of 27. So there are plenty of days for all kinds of things to happen. Something spectacular. Something life-changing. Or just a pretty ordinary day that still held something very memorable. https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/one-day-in-the-life-of/ Fri, 25 May 2018 05:20:47 +0000 https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/one-day-in-the-life-of/ Have you read the novel One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn? I have, long time ago. It describes a single day in the life of an ordinary prisoner in a Gulag camp, and now, that book gives life to a new article series in this Journeys of Life: One Day in the Life of people from all walks of life. If we live to be 80, we have lived around 29,200 days.