Back in the Spring of 2014, my longtime friend Leland Lazarus and I were catching up on the day-to-day doldrums over the phone. We talked about this and that for a good while, before the conversation turned to our individual side projects. I told him of my freelance writing, and he entertained me with stories of his successful scholarship program, The Dream Scholarship. I joked with him, "Send me the URL, and I'll tell you what to change!" I was met with silence, before he told me that he didn't have a website yet. I had been trying to teach myself website design, so I told him I would try my hand at it.

And that was the beginning of something fantastic.

The website was built in a couple of weeks, bringing a firm digital platform to The Dream Scholarship. But what it represented to me was far more than a gallery of images and a homepage. I was doing what I loved again: helping kids in a tangible way. Giving them an opportunity to have some of the same opportunities I had access to. It's a small program, but it takes up a big space in my heart.