Blog | Peter Luckey

70-Year-Old Conversation With the 15-Year-Old

You were as happy as you looked. You were coming home from the Yukon (Canada). Mom, Dad, you, and your brothers ate sandwiches at the...

3 a.m. Anxiety Attack

3:15 a.m. I told myself this week that driving the 221 miles to Tulsa and back was no sweat, and yet I laid in bed, restless. I dreaded...

Who Are Your Mentors?

My 23 rd birthday - the year my father died - marked a new low. I had just graduated from college, and I was “camping out” in friend’s...

Could you use a coach?

Prepared by Peter Luckey for the Kansas Oklahoma Conference - March 5, 2022 Has something ever weighed on your mind so much that it kept...

What my visit with President Obama taught me about humanity

The door opened. Expressionless men in black suits and dark sunglasses pushed into the crowd to clear a path. And then he was before me,...

Presence

While all hell was breaking loose at the US Capitol in January 2021, I was visiting my 94-year-old mother in a nursing home in...

This Year, Christmas Came Early

Last Wednesday’s wind that toppled a tractor trailer tormented me with flying debris while I stood pumping gasoline into my car. I said...

Finding My Place: A Memory of My First Day of First Grade

What I remember most about my six-year-old birthday was the rain. It was my first day of first grade and I was riding a school bus for...

Monkey Brain

By Peter A. Luckey I recently had a dream. I'm sitting among colleagues. Conference tables are scattered throughout the room; important...