Dear Hannah - I'm a #StandupStoryteller. I'm the "Brother From Another Planet". Strange people think I am strange. I think that what I experience is strange. And still I rise. I just completed another school year. I am trying to see where I have been ... and where I am going. Let's move away from analyzing the status quo. Let's move toward discussing hope, healing, and substantive change. Our world is deceitful and wicked ... but life is still for the living. There are still purposeful pursuits that are worth our time and energy. Purpose fuels my fire ... not sharing inconvenient truth. Inconvenient truth does show how to navigate treacherous, choppy waters, though. And still I rise ... I observed an important anniversary a couple of weeks ago. It was the 10th anniversary of the 15th anniversary of a computer camp I created and ran at Georgia Tech when I was a graduate student. Looking back, it was not a computer camp at all ... rather, it was a creative problem solving camp. I taught kids how to build computers as a strategy to help them conquer their fear of this cold, intimidating machine ... and learn to use them as productive business *partners*...