It’s been a long time since I posted regularly on this website. So I want to come back to it by telling you a little bit about how I feel… I am sad, and I don’t deserve to be so sad. I am lonely and scared, and I don’t deserve to be so lonely and […]
Author Archives: Scott Hughes
Sandy Hook Elementary
I think we often see the best of humanity in the face of the worst. Even within the terror and brutality of the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary, we find the sadly beautiful heroism such as that of Teacher Victoria Soto and Teacher’s Assistant Anne Marie Murphy who each died using their own bodies to […]
Running for Charity: Harvard’s Summer Urban Program
My younger brother has been training for months to run the Boston Marathon in April. In addition to running a sum of more than 900 miles in training, he has pledged to raise over $5,000 for Harvard’s Summer Urban Program. Neither of these are easy tasks. What is the Summer Urban Program? “The Summer Urban […]
What is Martin Luther King Day?
What is Martin Luther King Day? If a child asked you this question, you might respond confidently, ‘This is a day we remember a great man, Martin Luther King.’ But is it? Sure the day is named after King, but do we remember him on it? Do we really remember him at all? Considering the […]
Make the Poor Pay More while the Rich Pay Less?
I have already made many posts about taxes on this blog. The most stunning point to me in those posts is that the rich pay less taxes than the working class in terms of percentage of income–at least in the USA. I didn’t want to make yet another post about taxes on a blog that […]