Up Your Impact Factor

Stop writing right now. Disregard everything I’ve ever told you about speaking from your heart and expressing your truth. It’s dangerous! You just never know how people are going to take things. You might end up causing trouble, making waves or…worse. Be careful what you write. Edit yourself heavily. Do not communicate any radical or potentially thought-provoking ideas. People cannot handle it. I really didn’t know. I’m sorry I’ve misled you all this time. But last week’s post on Sophie Scholl finally opened my eyes to the problem…and I will from here-on-out only write about safe topics like kittens, s’mores (click to read more…)

There are some people who walk this earth for such a short time yet leave such a huge impact, their names are never forgotten. Always, it is their words that immortalize their truth. Sophie Scholl was a German university student during Hitler’s terrible reign. Along with several others known as the White Rose, she and her brother Hans organized a movement of passive resistance against the Nazis. On February 18, 1943 Sophie and Hans were arrested for distributing pamphlets throughout the campus of the University of Munich. These pamphlets, the sixth in a series produced by the White Rose, called (click to read more…)