By the way, there is nothing cute about a pink wheelchair. Pink doesn't change a thing.

Teachers must be celebrated for moving civilization from ignorance to enlightenment, from apathy to responsibility.

It can connect us to memories. It can influence our mood and our responses to problems we might face.

Go ahead and cry, Andy. Don't be afraid of those tears. Sometimes they help to wash the soul clean.

[A] person is so much more than the name of a diagnosis on a chart.

Words. I'm surrounding by thousands of words. Maybe millions...Deep within me, words pile up in huge drifts. Mountains of phrases and sentences and connected ideas. Clever expressions. Jokes. Love songs...I have never spoken one single word. I am almost eleven years old.

Words have always swirled around me like snowflakes-each one delicate and different, each one melting untouched in my hands.