Laura Beth Anderson

Boy mom. ⚾️ Loves Jesus, family, my Italian roots 🇮🇹, restoring houses, genealogy & travel. UMHB alumni

[Matt Van Swol @mattvanswol]

🚨WOW!!!

Firefighters and college football players showed up to a Tennessee senior home...to pull grandmas and grandpas down a MASSIVE slip 'n slide!!!

Seniors with dementia and Parkinson's laughed like little kids again.

This is the annual "Ride 'n Slide" at Adams Place in Murfreesboro, Tennessee where a giant tarp is stretched across the lawn and the Murfreesboro Fire Department keeps it soaked and lifts residents safely on and off.

The Middle Tennessee State football team spent their day pulling grandmas across the water on inner tubes and cheering them on every single ride.

One resident, Mike Mitchell, an Army veteran and a retired minister who preached for SIXTY YEARS, talked himself into it right there on the lawn.

One grandma went down FOUR times and came up smiling saying, "Well that was fast!"

Organizers say the residents with dementia and Parkinson's light up brightest of all.

For one afternoon, no diagnoses, no age, just water, laughter, and people cheering your name.

That's so amazing...

GOD BLESS THESE PEOPLE!!!! 🇺🇸

[✭Five Tool Texas✭ @FiveToolTexas]

.@MustangsDallas Gilbreath's Cy Anderson (@cylanderson10) crushes a double to left field.

Waxahachie (TX) 2027 #uncommitted

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[Cy Anderson @Cylanderson10]

#1 💣 of the summer
@jesselopezWAX @HachieBall1909 @MustangsDallas

[Laura Beth Anderson @LauraBethDineen]

Right after his home run 🔥

[✭Five Tool Texas✭ @FiveToolTexas]

.@MustangsDallas Gilbreath's Cy Anderson (@Cylanderson10) lines one to CF for a single.

Waxahachie (TX) 2027 #uncommitted

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[Laura Beth Anderson @LauraBethDineen]

This will bring tears to your eyes! 🇺🇸❤️

[✭Five Tool Texas✭ @FiveToolTexas]

.@MustangsDallas Gilbreath's Cy Anderson (@cylanderson10 ) rips one down the left field line for a 2-run double.

Waxahachie (TX) 2027 #uncommitted

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[Kristin Raworth 🇨🇦 @KristinRaworth]

I've never sen anything more accurate

[Darcy - BuyitforLife.com @Darcymason]

@DoctorLemma There was a follow up posted to this today actually:

https://t.co/UIm3gYkLld

[Laura Beth Anderson @LauraBethDineen]

@DavidJHarrisJr “Amica” is friend (feminine) in Italian. I think that’s what he said.

[Laura Beth Anderson @LauraBethDineen]

@CollinRugg Up to $327k now! Here is the link to donate. https://t.co/HoGTrTAaRi

[positive side of X 🌞 @positivityofx]

Life is more beautiful when you have friends who know how to be friends.

[Fox News @FoxNews]

FREEDOM RINGS: 104-year-old World War II veteran Dominick Critelli, who fought at Normandy and in the Battle of the Bulge, wowed the crowd by performing the National Anthem on his saxophone at a New York Islanders game.

Critelli, a staff sergeant who immigrated to the U.S. from Italy when he was a child, spent 151 days in combat during World War II, earning three Bronze Stars.

[Kurt Supe, CPA & Retirement Planner @KurtSupeCPA]

My 71-year-old client sees his daughter maybe 6 times a year.

They live 50 minutes apart.

Not estranged. Not fighting.
Just... busy.

Holidays. Birthdays. The occasional Sunday dinner.

"We text every day," he told me. "We're really close."
I did the math in front of him.

He's 71. Statistically, he has maybe 12-15 years left.
Six visits a year.

That's 72-90 more times he'll see her in person.
He stared at the number.

"90 more times with my daughter?"

He went quiet for a minute.

"That's it? That's all that's left?"

Tim Urban from Wait But Why calculated something that stopped me cold:

By the time you leave home at 18, you've already spent 93% of your in-person time with your parents.

The remaining 7% gets spread thinly—just a few days per year—across the next several decades of their lives.

You think you have forever.
The math says different.

He called her that night.
Now she comes for coffee every Sunday.

"I've seen her 11 times in the last 3 months," he told me.
"More than all of last year."

He didn't need a financial plan.

He needed to see the number.

Sometimes the most important math has nothing to do with money.

[Laura Beth Anderson @LauraBethDineen]

The book is available on Amazon in English. Please buy a copy of Giuseppe’s book, enjoy his stories & support the beautiful things he & his wife are doing for children of Petilia Policastro. ❤️ https://t.co/inSkFgLELE

[Laura Beth Anderson @LauraBethDineen]

2 years ago my mom and I met Giuseppe Caruso and his wife Manuela in Petilia Policastro, Italy. It’s not far from my family’s village of Caccuri. Giuseppe is an artist, and Manuela is an English teacher.

[Laura Beth Anderson @LauraBethDineen]

He tells about my mother and I visiting their village, my family’s emigration story and about me returning to Caccuri, Italy to find my family. I was filled with emotion while reading it. My family’s story will continue to live on…

[Cy Anderson @Cylanderson10]

Ended the summer with
15 Hits
AVG: .405
7 Doubles
6 Singles
2 Home Runs
9 RBI
13 Runs
10 Walks
@jesselopezWAX @HachieBall1909 @KovaSportsTx @FiveToolTexas @PrepBaseball_TX