Haunting, And Incredibly Powerful Anti-Bullying Poem: Shane Koyczan, ‘To This Day’ Live Meet Shane Koyczan. He’s the one who wrote the poem “To This Day” that was crowdsource-animated and then went super viral in 2013, reaching 10 million page views in a matter of weeks. Here, he provides a little more background and then does […]
Patrick Stewart talks about growing up with domestic violence and finding out that his father suffered from PTSD and how he honors his parent’s memory. Sir Patrick Stewart was one of the featured speakers at Houston’s Comicpalooza – The Texas International Comic Convention back in May 2013 and his words are just as relevant today […]
“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 […]