{"id":8378,"date":"2024-10-16T14:52:55","date_gmt":"2024-10-16T14:52:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.wilmu.edu\/news\/?p=6446"},"modified":"2025-03-31T11:20:28","modified_gmt":"2025-03-31T15:20:28","slug":"reigniting-an-old-flame","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.wilmu.edu\/news\/2024\/10\/16\/reigniting-an-old-flame\/","title":{"rendered":"Reigniting an Old Flame"},"content":{"rendered":"<style>.kadence-column8378_66975c-98 > .kt-inside-inner-col{padding-right:var(--global-kb-spacing-lg, 3rem);padding-left:var(--global-kb-spacing-lg, 3rem);}.kadence-column8378_66975c-98 > .kt-inside-inner-col,.kadence-column8378_66975c-98 > .kt-inside-inner-col:before{border-top-left-radius:0px;border-top-right-radius:0px;border-bottom-right-radius:0px;border-bottom-left-radius:0px;}.kadence-column8378_66975c-98 > .kt-inside-inner-col{column-gap:var(--global-kb-gap-sm, 1rem);}.kadence-column8378_66975c-98 > .kt-inside-inner-col{flex-direction:column;}.kadence-column8378_66975c-98 > .kt-inside-inner-col > .aligncenter{width:100%;}.kadence-column8378_66975c-98 > .kt-inside-inner-col:before{opacity:0.3;}.kadence-column8378_66975c-98{position:relative;}@media all and (max-width: 1024px){.kadence-column8378_66975c-98 > .kt-inside-inner-col{flex-direction:column;justify-content:center;}}@media all and (max-width: 991px){.kadence-column8378_66975c-98 > .kt-inside-inner-col{flex-direction:column;justify-content:center;}}<\/style>\n<div class=\"wp-block-kadence-column kadence-column8378_66975c-98\"><div class=\"kt-inside-inner-col\"><style>.wp-block-kadence-image.kb-image8378_c1c53b-d0:not(.kb-specificity-added):not(.kb-extra-specificity-added) > figure{margin-bottom:0px;}.kb-image8378_c1c53b-d0 .kb-image-has-overlay:after{opacity:0.3;}<\/style>\n<div class=\"wp-block-kadence-image kb-image8378_c1c53b-d0 NoMargin\"><figure class=\"alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"250\" height=\"384\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.wilmu.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Wilmington-University-md-pursuit-Peggy-book-cover.jpg\" class=\"kb-img wp-image-13199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.wilmu.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Wilmington-University-md-pursuit-Peggy-book-cover.jpg 250w, https:\/\/blog.wilmu.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Wilmington-University-md-pursuit-Peggy-book-cover-163x250.jpg 163w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Imagine two teenagers \u2014 one a GI, the other the daughter of a career military man \u2014 falling in love on an Army base in Germany in the 1970s. They are parted when the girl\u2019s father is transferred back to the United States.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Forty-five years later, they re-connect via the internet. After all these years, they are still in love.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sounds like a romance novel, right? Actually, it\u2019s the true story of <strong>Peggy Maher-Daniels<\/strong>, a Wilmington University adjunct, who shares her experience of reclaimed love in her book, \u201cIn Pursuit of Peggy.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s basically an autobiographical romance, written in diary form,\u201d she says.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Maher-Daniels teaches Business Leadership and Human Resources at WilmU. She is also director of HR at Basciani Foods in Avondale, Pennsylvania. She wrote her first book, \u201cDumber Than a Box of Hair,\u201d in 2016.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a compilation of all the crazy things people do to get themselves fired, like the bank teller who set up her boyfriend to rob the teller who worked next to her. The boyfriend wore the same hat and jacket to a happy hour he attended the week before, and&nbsp;the teller he robbed identified him instantly,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Maher-Daniels combines working with pursuing education and passion projects. \u201cI am a bundle of energy. I love teaching. I love human resources. I love traveling,\u201d she says. \u201cI don\u2019t watch television. If you can manage your time well, it\u2019s amazing what you can get done.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During the pandemic, Maher-Daniels reignited her relationship with her old flame, who was identified in the book by his first name, <strong>Craig<\/strong>. She went online and discovered he was working in Iowa. Then she took a deep breath, picked up the phone, and left him a voicemail, hoping he wasn\u2019t married or in a relationship.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWithin two hours, he called me. When I heard his voice, my heart quivered,\u201d she recalled.<\/p>\n\n\n<style>.kb-image8378_8dfd37-3d .kb-image-has-overlay:after{opacity:0.3;}<\/style>\n<div class=\"wp-block-kadence-image kb-image8378_8dfd37-3d\"><figure class=\"alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.wilmu.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Wilmington-University-Peggy-Maher-Daniels.jpg\" class=\"kb-img wp-image-13180\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.wilmu.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Wilmington-University-Peggy-Maher-Daniels.jpg 250w, https:\/\/blog.wilmu.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Wilmington-University-Peggy-Maher-Daniels-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><figcaption>Peggy Maher-Daniels<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Craig had been thinking about her, too, and had kept all her letters and photographs. Soon after, they met in St. Paul, Minnesota. Since then, they\u2019ve maintained a long-distance relationship with frequent visits. Craig has been introduced to Maher-Daniels\u2019 two grown sons. He\u2019s divorced and has no children, and the two are exploring where they will live after Craig\u2019s upcoming retirement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This fall, they will travel to Nuremberg and revisit their favorite spots during their teenage courtship in Germany.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group alignwide is-nowrap is-layout-flex wp-container-core-group-is-layout-ad2f72ca wp-block-group-is-layout-flex\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote wu-blockquote-simple is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u201cI tell my students to write from their hearts, which is just what I did with my book,\u201d she says. \u201cI want to give people hope that they can be crazy in love.\u201d&nbsp;<em>\u2014Eileen Smith Dallabrida<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Imagine two teenagers \u2014 one a GI, the other the daughter of a career military man \u2014 falling in love on an Army base in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":17735,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[135],"tags":[615,716,639],"class_list":["post-8378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-magazine","tag-faculty-feature","tag-magazine-fall-2024","tag-wilmu-faculty"],"acf":[],"taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":135,"label":"MAGAZINE"}],"post_tag":[{"value":615,"label":"Faculty Feature"},{"value":716,"label":"Magazine Fall 2024"},{"value":639,"label":"WilmU Faculty"}]},"featured_image_src_large":["https:\/\/blog.wilmu.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/pexels-minan1398-1004014-657x480.jpg",657,480,true],"author_info":{"display_name":"Rachel Marchione","author_link":"https:\/\/blog.wilmu.edu\/news\/author\/rachel\/"},"comment_info":0,"category_info":[{"term_id":135,"name":"MAGAZINE","slug":"magazine","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":692,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":431,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":135,"category_count":431,"category_description":"","cat_name":"MAGAZINE","category_nicename":"magazine","category_parent":0}],"tag_info":[{"term_id":615,"name":"Faculty Feature","slug":"faculty-feature","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":1172,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":23,"filter":"raw"},{"term_id":716,"name":"Magazine Fall 2024","slug":"magazine-fall-2024","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":1273,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":26,"filter":"raw"},{"term_id":639,"name":"WilmU Faculty","slug":"wilmu-faculty","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":1196,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":10,"filter":"raw"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wilmu.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wilmu.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wilmu.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wilmu.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wilmu.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8378"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wilmu.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8378\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17870,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wilmu.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8378\/revisions\/17870"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wilmu.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wilmu.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wilmu.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wilmu.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}