“I walked around the venue, trying to find a spot in the crowd. Then, we heard it. ‘GUN!’ Screams erupted. My friend and I shared a mutual look of terror before breaking into a sprint. Adrenaline carried us. Police officers ran towards us, guns pulled. ‘Keep your heads down!’ In the end? It was a popped water bottle. But I will remember it as if it were real because, in that moment, it was.”

‘He looked me straight in the eyes and muttered a single word: RUN.’: Crowd of thousands mistake popped water bottle for gunshot, woman claims mass shootings have us all ‘living in fear’

‘I can’t take it anymore. The school shootings. The political divide. The border.’ Fed up mom’s advice on the ONE THING to make it better
“I don’t have all of the answers. But I do have this. I do have this one thing to offer.”

‘It’s hard not to look at the last 4 years and feel like I’ve failed’: Why this teacher is ‘JUMPING SHIP’ from the education profession
“Dear Ms. Befort, English with you is like a roller coaster. Sometimes I want to be eaten alive by lions. But nothing’s perfect, right?”