As a retired teacher I want to share the origin and reasons why I am writing a book titled, Why Bullies Are Cowards.

I was born and spent most of my early years growing up on a small farm in northwestern

Iowa. I had to ride a bus to school and sometimes some of the big boys on the bus would tease me and take my stuff. One day they were so mean that I began crying when I got home. I told my dad what had happened. He sat quietly listening and after I had finished relating what happened he said, "I think it's...