GROUNDS OF CHANGE

This past winter Grounds of Change interviewee #42 was getting dozens of boxes delivered to her house. The boxes were full of blankets and totes. There were ...

The Chaos theory explains that something as small as a flutter of a butterfly’s wings can ultimately cause a typhoon halfway across the world. This blog isn’...

Blog #40 is about DJ CherishTheLuv. I think her and her story are both incredible, and I hope after this blog you think that too! (Check her out! https://djc...

When you think of a hero, what comes to mind? Wonder woman, military personnel, first responders. All of those are great images of heroes and easily recogniz...

Icing is arguably the most important part of a cake. I mean, of course, there’s also butter, flour, baking powder, salt, sugar, eggs and milk. They all come ...

Life can be really scary. Sometimes we are handed situations that make us feel powerless. Mr. Rogers says that when he was a boy and would see scary things, ...

This interview fascinated me. The entire time I just kept thinking...”Wow! This man is a SUPERHERO.” Kenny Sipes is a game changer who has the power of bring...

It is so easy to get caught up in our own lives. It’s easy to forget how much our interactions throughout the day can affect others. Think about a time someo...

If you have not heard of Pura Vida, you might be living under a rock. These string bracelets are basically taking over the world and every wrist in my high s...

Have you ever heard the song Who Says by Selena Gomez? The lyrics go a little something like this... “Who says, who says, you’re not perfect. Who says you’re...

Wake up. Move. Go to Sleep. Wake up. Move. Go to Sleep. Wake up. Move. Go to Sleep. In the simplest terms, that is how each of our twenty-four hours is spent...

Grounds of Change interview number thirty-one is all about Kylee McGrane, the cofounder of a nonprofit called “A Moment of Magic”. This program takes college...

With snapchat and instagram at the tip of our fingers, capturing and sharing moments with our phone cameras are a huge part of the world for my friends and m...

Friendship is one of the sweetest joys of life. There is something so spectacular about a true companion. We all know many famous duos: Spongebob and Patric...

Wait Wait Wait… someone is changing this world in their sweatpants? Wait Wait Wait… you can change the world in your sweatpants too? It’s actually super simp...

“People generally see what they look for and hear what they listen for.” Maybe that was the line Emily Moberly had just read from Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mock...

One of my favorite television series is Friends. Every single Friends episode has the Number of the Episode followed by the title “The one with….”.  If this ...

One of the coolest parts of Grounds of Change so far happened when a package appeared in my mailbox from Yvon Chouinard, the founder of Patagonia. It was a s...

It is definitely running through your mind after reading the title of this blog that there is no way someone accidentally raised $50,000! Well, someone did. ...

I know nothing about superheroes, so I googled “what makes spider-man a hero?” My google search informed me that Spider-man is a hero because he chooses to u...