Jewish families (like my own) lined the streets of my neighborhood, the next neighborhood, and so on. My parents, two older brothers...

However, one piece was always missing: my mother. She committed suicide when I was just eight months old, so everything I know about...

I believe that an underrated statement is when people say the “mid-life crisis” can change your existence. I should know. Earlier this...

My parents—my father especially—were very liberal for the society in which we lived. A retired army officer, my father was well-educated...

My mother took the highway and never looked back, not even at me! My father was left to care for me alone and since he lacked childcare...

For as long as I can remember, all I desired was a simple life for my family, alone in the wilderness. This wasn’t without struggle...

Nothing is as exhilarating as feeling the wind against your face on a speeding motorbike. It’s a power only the rider controls. I thought...

My parents were not rich, but we had enough to go around. My dad was a businessman, and my mom taught at a primary school. In the absence...

But as it goes, an unrest seemed to clench my heart, and being so young, I did not know what that feeling even was or why these answers...

While my work has brought peace to my soul and the wonderful feeling of helping others has always been present, much of my career was...

And while both were “uneducated” (in the sense that my father dropped out after 8th grade, and my mother had never been to school a day...

“I’m kicking you out. Come get your stuff.” I was 16 when I read this devastating text from my stepfather. No money. No job. And now ...

My childhood was a long-term nightmare that I couldn’t wake up from. My father was very violent and abusive, so I never had a chance...

People around me see a beautiful picture of my life. They see a young entrepreneur who owns a nice flat and went to Dubai for her...

On hot summer nights, my parents would pack up a picnic and take my us to the beach by the lake. The cool water breeze off the lake was...

Growing up I was an extremely naughty kid who loved to mess with people. Most of the time, it was all in good fun, but I remember one...

In 1999, my parents faced some financial struggles, so Grammy and Grandpa opened the door to us. It was just like the weekends we...

My parents were very alert people, writers who valued the fundamental rights of humans. The arts took the place of religion in our family...

I was born on August 18, 1988 to a timid mother and a drug-addicted father. My father was in the picture for the first six months of...

As a boy, I was enamored by my father’s sharp business suits and his title of a lawyer. While I looked up to him, I did so at a distance...