Sigrid Tidmore

Kids Send Art to Obama

Community Stepping Stones Kids Tell President Obama How They Feel About Gulf Disaster in Letters & Art Monday, July 12, 2010, Tampa Florida – The youth of Community Stepping Stones in Sulphur...

Kid’s Art Depicts Oil Spill

Kid’s Art Depicts Oil Spill

Out of the mouths of babes.  Kid's are really depressed about the oil spill. Kathy Steele, in today's Tampa Tribune/Carrollwood TBO.com, shared her observations. Click on the attached PDFs and...

Kids vs. Oil Spill

The last few weeks I've been volunteering as a guest artist at COMMUNITY STEPPING STONES, an organization that provides arts-oriented after-school programs to encourage kids to stick with their...

Good Medicine

Good Medicine

Dr. Carol Roberts is a pioneer.  Decades before anyone was talking about alternative medicine, this physician was noticing that allergies and chronic diseases could be controlled by natural...

Aussie Octopus

Aussie Octopus

Octopi are interesting animals. With their eerily human eyes, their tentacled legs, their way of looking at you - directly at you - you just know they're thinking something in that big brain, and...

Hermit Crab

Hermit Crab

Hermit crabs look fierce from the front, with their armored claws and legs.  But from the back, they’re soft and very vulnerable, which is why they protect themselves by living in discarded...

Teach The Children

Community Stepping Stones is a phenomenal after school program for youth in Sulphur Springs, an economically-challenged neighborhood in Tampa.  In exchange for a commitment to work hard and stay in...

The Upside of the Gulf Oil Spill

Living on Tampa Bay, I’m as sick and appalled about the oil spill in the Gulf as anyone.  It’s as if a great darkness is slowly moving towards our pristine estuaries, engulfing everything in its...