“Even when I’m sleeping, I still feel that pain. The pain is like somewhere inside my head and I can always know it’s there. It’s always pushing me to my limits and it’s always pushing me past my limits.”1 ~ Jonathan Pitre TSN: People with your condition, they call them Butterfly Children. Why do they […]
A Seattle entrepreneur announced on Monday that he was raising the minimum salary at his company to $70,000 and reducing his own pay to the same amount from the current level of about $1 million. Dan Price, the founder of Gravity Payments, told the CBS Evening News that he was inspired by a Princeton University […]
9-year-old Sydney Smoot, a fourth grader at Brooksville Elementary, shared her concerns on testing in schools with members of the Hernando County School Board at their regular meeting on March 17, 2015. Speaking of the Florida Standards Assessment Test, or FSA for short, Sydney told the school board that: This testing looks at me as […]
All too often, doctors are unsung heroes – only seen in times if ill health, often serving as reminders of death and disease. A heart-breaking photo taken by an EMT, showing the instant an Emergency Room doctor stepped outside after losing a 19-year-old patient is exploding on the internet after a fellow EMT posted the […]
To date I have never met one person in my life that hasn’t been through some kind of ordeal or that doesn’t have a bad story to tell. Not one. I do believe though that the choice is ours in how we deal with our stories. Do we let them define the rest of our […]