journey into inspiration
They are young. They are in love. They think they will be together forever. Statistics tell a different story. Dating violence for high school students is very real. According to the National Institute of Justice, the Youth Risk Behavior Survey, a nationally representative annual survey of youth in grades 9 to 12, found evidence of… Continue reading together forever
By Sharen McArthur, editor Breaking the silence was something he could not do when he was a child. He could not tell anyone – not his parents, his brothers, his sister. He suffered in silence. In 2013 he decided it was time to tell his story of the sexual abuse that he had endured as… Continue reading Breaking the silence
The dangerous beast. That’s what the boy called the young man. In his imagination, he went into the jungle and stood up to the dangerous beast. And he always won. Born in El Salvador, Marco Flores was a toddler when his father abandoned his family. When he was three, his mother left him in the… Continue reading the dangerous beast
He is called a Butterfly Boy. Imagine you are about to meet him. He walks into a room. You stare at him. You look away. You look again. Questions run through your mind. What do I say? Should I say something? Do I walk away? Do I say hello? What do I do? Now imagine… Continue reading He is Called a Butterfly Boy
Read the extraordinary story of four undocumented Mexican-American high school students who did the impossible: they won a national underwater robotics competition when no one thought they could. Epic Magazine co-founder Joshua Davis wrote about four young men from West Phoenix who had no experience, came from an underfunded high school and used car parts,… Continue reading They Did the Impossible
BY SHAREN MCARTHUR, EDITOR THE UNEXPLAINED, THE SUDDEN, THE UNEXPECTED – these are the things that fill the soul, making thick, delicious ruminations. One such incident happened on a sunny Saturday morning, not to me, but to my husband and daughters. Driving down the road about a mile from our house in an older section… Continue reading The Script of My Life