If your New Year's goals are already needing a little boost-- you'll want to meet Barbara Ingram of Dallas.
– If your New Year’s goals are already needing a little boost– you’ll want to meet Barbara Ingram of Dallas.
“I still want to be able to go out and be challenged,” says the homemaker and 83-year-old great-grandmother. “I got bored… and I decided that I needed to do something mentally to stay busy.”When she’d had her fill of puzzles during the pandemic, Ingram decided to take on a new challenge: Harvard. “It was the best school I could go to, and hardest school I felt I could go to,” she explains with a shrug and smile.So, with her family’s full support– and a little bit of amazement from friends– Ingram will begin her fourth semester at the elite school later this month.“I have a routine,” explains Ingram. “I start at night at 10:00 and study until 2:30 in the morning and if I’d studied longer, I probably could have done better, but that was my routine.
“There was a lady out there, taking a picture and I said, ‘why are you taking a picture of this’? And she said, ‘because I want my mother to see this’. She wanted her mother to get on the ball and do something!”If you’re able and capable, keep setting and chasing new goals. After all, dreams needn’t come with expiration dates.Robbie
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