IT WAS A STAR…
It was a star. A simple star…one that would be drawn on your hand when you arrived at school…or not. I remember waking up every morning. I didn’t care about my homework. I didn’t care about what we were going to do in school that day. I only cared about whether or not my hand would receive a star on it when I got to school. The star was nothing special. It was a scribbled-on star in pen. Depending on the day, it was a different colour. You know…so you couldn’t just make your own star and come to [...]
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To launch the Inside Out blog in 2015, we created this music video to introduce our brave writers. While some of the writers have changed since then, we still feel it celebrates the spirit of who we are and the types of stories we want to share with you. Enjoy!