Sarah's Miracle Mile Race

Miracle of Hope, the Miracle of Sarah

Sarah’s Miracle Mile Race
Miracle of Hope - The miracle of Sarah

On November 4, 2006 the Miracle Mile Race for the benefit of the Spastic Paraplegia Foundation took place on the campus of North Carolina State University in Raleigh, NC.

The miracle of this race actually began more than three decades earlier when a young child was born somewhere in the vicinity of Ashville, NC. By all accounts this girl lived a very ordinary life through elementary and high school. 

I’ve been told that she went on to study religion at Davidson College which I believe is just north of Charlotte, NC.

She didn’t go into the ministry, though her words would ring out in the ears of many an Information Technology manager (as I was) like Gospel. That’s right Gospel with a big G.

This young writer, many times younger than an old dinosaur like me, shot out onto the technology stage like a shooting star.

As a writer and editor for magazines like PC Magazine and Portals she got access to the brightest minds in the information technology world. Those of us who lived on the cutting edge (Some say bleeding edge) of technology were among the few who really grasped (to some degree) just what she was talking about. At least I think we did.

Her articles were short and very deep. She turned difficult concepts into meaningful business ideas. Her articles on data complexity and knowledge management can still be found on the indexes of leading colleges and universities here in the United States and in countries such as the United Kingdom and Russia. They have been translated so that they can be understood in some places that don’t speak or read English.

You never expect to meet the people that shape your world. Then one day at church you see someone who is having a little difficulty walking. You do something, like holding a door, to make their day a little easier.

Never knowing this is the person who wrote that article your boss kept quoting when you said it wasn’t that easy to build a data warehouse or turn a home built application into a fully functioning Knowledge Base.