We were a short 10-minute drive away from the bustling capital city of Kuala Lumpur. Our backyard opened to lush green jungle that...

I used to love watching my mom do her makeup. I remember how my mom would put me in a highchair when I was just about one or two years...

Today it has become a revamped, artsy district, but when I was born in 1987, it was a place full of gangs, violence, and drugs. I thought...

As my family sat, distraught, a priest entered the room to give my last rites. My blue, lifeless body laid across the table. I wasn’t...

September 1, 2017. To many this was just another day; but for me, it was my last day as a “Ms.” The next day, I was going to say “I do...

It was not by mistake that I was named after my clan, “Nyakach.” My parents must have had great hopes for me when they gave me this name...

I survived 16 years of military life through premonition, an instinctive survival gift that enabled me to make life saving decisions for...

Let me take you back to when I was just six years old. My chronic asthma was a plague against my childhood, as I was in the hospital more...

I had a great childhood full of fun family vacations and playing outside. I mostly hung around with my brothers and their friends, which...

Growing up, we never thought we lacked anything because everyone in the village seemed to have exactly what your family had. If you ate...

My oldest sister Katherine died after just 36 hours of life, and my next sister, Cathy, was diagnosed with Cystic Fibrosis at two years...

I’ve always been the type of person that would go out and experience something for myself rather than watch someone else do it...

I was the sixth born in a family of nine siblings. Though I was meek, being my mother’s last born offered me the protection I needed...

If life were to be pre-programmed, it would kill the fun out of every learning situation. It would be better to be born a zombie than...

I once read somewhere that, “Theatres are modern churches: huddled masses in the dark, looking up at those in the light, telling them...

Living simply has been ingrained in me. I was born in the late 1950s in Danville, Kentucky, and raised by my great-grandmother...

Each one of us has a story. Mine is a tale of a woman who was able to achieve her dreams because of the people along the way. If others...

My childhood was spent in the small city of Manizales, Colombia. As the youngest in the family, my parents were quite overprotective...

When I tell people I’m 100 years old, their eyes widen like they’re looking at a rare gem. I suppose I am, but I don’t see it that way...

While working on the farm as a young boy, I had time to daydream. As I milked cows and plucked chickens, I played the “what-if” game with...