The Courage to Ask: How Getting Help Transformed Helen Keller’s Life
by Rochelle Melander We imagine that writing and making art is easy. Sometimes it is. An idea hits us and we execute it with ease.... Read More
Connect to Community
by Rochelle Melander “Oppression cannot be fought without the power of community. In order to solve problems, we have to work together. Many youth who... Read More
When the World Falls to Pieces, Write!
by Rochelle Melander “Art is my cure to all this madness, sadness, and loss of belonging in the world and through it I’ll walk myself... Read More
What My Heroes Have Taught Me About Writing: Charles Darwin
by Rochelle Melander When Charles Darwin published On the Origin of the Species in 1859, the library at Trinity College, Cambridge—where Darwin had attended college—banned... Read More
How Purpose Overcomes Fear
by Rochelle Melander Purpose encouraged Martin Luther King, Jr., in his fight against injustice. In 1963, when Black people protested segregation in Birmingham, Alabama, they... Read More