The (S)Hero’s Journey

TUCKER HUGHES

The Pine Ridge Native Reservation has suffered a horrible loss. Santana Janis 12 years old has taken her life along with nine other people…

A man walks into the men’s room to pee, but gets beaten up and almost cracks his head on the asphalt. Why? He doesn’t have a penis.

As I sit here on a foggy Monday in January, with feelings of fear and hate and uncertainty all fresh and sharp from the inauguration, there…

Imagine every city that is on, or even near a coast, drowned in the sea. Entire states clean off the map. New York, Los Angeles, Seattle…

Humming busily, a honey bee glides through the balmy air, stopping periodically to rest on delicate apple blossoms in order to sip the…

For one second let’s think about a world where no one had to suffer from loneliness. Let’s think about a world where there was always a…

How would you feel if I told you that there isn’t one state in the US with an obesity rate lower than 20%? Now take this information and…

Flashback: 1 year, 2 months before. We see a broken soul, in her most fragile state, all because of the dying town she calls home. All she…

By Miranda Whitaker

Deadly diseases, little children dying from cancer because of not getting the full care they need. This is caused by families not having…

A Changemaker story told by the Youth Initiative HS Junior Class

Today, in the last half hour of class, the world opened up for my 19 juniors at Youth Initiative High School in Viroqua, WI.