Great article in today's St. Petersburg Times by columnist Ernest Hooper. Click Here to read it. Ernest really captures the spirit of the wonderful young people I've been working with at Community...
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
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...
Community Stepping Stones: How Kids Feel About the Oil Spill
THEY SAY NO ONE LEARNS LIKE THE TEACHER. How True! I've been guiding a group of young people at Community Stepping Stones in Sulphur Springs, Tampa. They vary in age from ten years old to eighteen. ...
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
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
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 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...