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“Experience has taught us that we have only one enduring weapon in our struggle against mental illness: the emotional discovery and emotional acceptance of the truth in the individual and unique history of our childhood.”― Alice Miller, “The Drama of the Gifted Child: The Search for the True Self.” My three-year stay at Riviera Junior […]

Fall 1977. Jimmy Carter was in the White House. Elvis Presley was dead. The first Apple II, Tandy, and Commodore personal computers were on the market, albeit they were expensive. George Lucas’s space-fantasy film Star Wars was well on its way to becoming the highest grossing box office hit of its time. The guillotine was […]

A team of eight high school seniors who attend a class at Kent Career Technical Center’s Engineering and Architectural Design in Grand Rapids, Michigan, recently completed a redesigned middle school lock, which helps Brin DeVries, a sixth-grade student with cerebral palsy, open her locker more easily and get to class in time. Michigan Live reports […]