I follow a lot of nonprofit, writing, and kindness focused organizations and groups and recently, one of them sent an email with a reflection question of “what’s a summer you’d go back to?” To be honest, I didn’t love the question. Could there be a single summer that stands out amongst the three plus decades I’ve been given? I tried to think back on specific memories and was greeted by a rush of climbing trees in childhood and summer reading for AP classes as a teenager. Thr

Driving west across the southern perimeter of America, Zack – the Marketing and Logistics Manager – put on Billy Joel’s New York State of...

The Smile Project Road Trip challenged me in ways I didn’t expect. It also inspired me in ways I couldn’t predict. I’m still feeling the...

The Sturgis Motorcycle Rally held annually in Sturgis, South Dakota is perhaps the most well-known event in the world of motorcycling....

We were a few days out from the end of the trip. Sitting in Ohio, just a day or so of driving away from my childhood home in...

When I started planning for The Smile Project road trip, I ran the idea by some of my closest friends and family. I was met with pretty...

The road trip ends tomorrow. I have no idea how that is possible. On one hand, I am excited to hug my parents and play with my dog. On...

I think I lost all concept of time on the trip. Or maybe my concept of time just became utterly warped. One of our running jokes in the...

In Rapid City, South Dakota, we worked with Dress for Success and a group called EMERGE that hosts discussions about social change and...

Who would have imagined I would fall so in love with Rapid City, South Dakota? I connected with a lady in Rapid City before the trip...