The Scoop - June 20, 2016
Posted by Heather Rutz
on Jun 20, 2016
Erin Hardesty’s birth mother search offers life lessons.
It wasn’t until Erin Hardesty was pregnant with her first child that she began to give real through to finding her birth parents. The medical history she didn’t have nagged at her, and so she started looking.
She found that history, and so much more, that she is now co-authoring a novel based on her life story. She also offers that history as life lesson and motivational speech, and shared much of that with Lima Rotary Club Monday.
Hardesty was born in Virginia, but her adoptive parents brought her home to Lima three days after her birth. Decades later she would come to learn that her birth mother also lived in Lima, just miles from where she grew up, and had several connections to her over the course of her life.
Hardesty and Mike Blass are co-authoring a novel and also give a presentation based on her story, “Three Dimensions of Personal Power,” in which she asks questions such as “Are you living by design, or default?”
Her birth mother’s decision to have a baby and put her up for adoption, had, at last count, affected the lives of some 400 people, Hardesty said.
“What have I learned?” she asked the crowd. “There is incredible power in choices and all choices have consequences.”
You can learn more about the book and her story at www.NoLittleChoices.com.
She found that history, and so much more, that she is now co-authoring a novel based on her life story. She also offers that history as life lesson and motivational speech, and shared much of that with Lima Rotary Club Monday.
Hardesty was born in Virginia, but her adoptive parents brought her home to Lima three days after her birth. Decades later she would come to learn that her birth mother also lived in Lima, just miles from where she grew up, and had several connections to her over the course of her life.
Hardesty and Mike Blass are co-authoring a novel and also give a presentation based on her story, “Three Dimensions of Personal Power,” in which she asks questions such as “Are you living by design, or default?”
Her birth mother’s decision to have a baby and put her up for adoption, had, at last count, affected the lives of some 400 people, Hardesty said.
“What have I learned?” she asked the crowd. “There is incredible power in choices and all choices have consequences.”
You can learn more about the book and her story at www.NoLittleChoices.com.
Also at Rotary Monday:
We celebrated anniversaries, including Steve Kayatin’s 27 years of Lima Rotary membership.
President Elect Dave Frost announced a dues increase of $25, to cover increasing costs associated with Rotary International and district dues, and weekly meals.
President David Runk reminded the club about:
• Changing of the Guard, which will happen June 27 at City Club
• Lima Locos tickets are available for a $2 donation to the Lima Rotary Foundation
• the Lima Rotary Foundation Golf Outing is rescheduled for July 20
• the next Lima Rotary Club social meeting is June 28 at The Met.
We celebrated anniversaries, including Steve Kayatin’s 27 years of Lima Rotary membership.
President Elect Dave Frost announced a dues increase of $25, to cover increasing costs associated with Rotary International and district dues, and weekly meals.
President David Runk reminded the club about:
• Changing of the Guard, which will happen June 27 at City Club
• Lima Locos tickets are available for a $2 donation to the Lima Rotary Foundation
• the Lima Rotary Foundation Golf Outing is rescheduled for July 20
• the next Lima Rotary Club social meeting is June 28 at The Met.