I watch people go through life planning everything out and feel disappointed when something doesn’t go according to the plan. Yes, you...

I had five siblings and we were raised by our mother. Our father was away working in the city most of the year, and sadly he passed away...

My life was never perfect. I went through some obstacles that would normally scar a child. I experienced losses in my family that pushed...

I’ve been working for a maintenance company for 31 years. Everyone knows me as the maintenance guy, but I haven’t always lived this life...

I did not have an easy beginning. The terror of sexual abuse haunted my adolescence, but I didn’t let that stop me from rising above it...

After her husband, my grandfather, left her a few years into their young marriage, she decided to raise their two daughters, my mother...

Everything I had touched in my life had so far become a disappointment, and I wanted to end it all. My life flashed before my eyes as I...

All the dreams he shared with me, paying my tuition fee and giving me hope in life, were gone. My future became bleak...

One might think that may have become an obstacle for me; luckily, that has not, or not yet. Coming from a community where majority of the...

You don’t always get what you want, unless you find a way to it. Sometimes that means you grab your courage, get out of your comfort zone...

I was the youngest of the three children in a middle-class family. It was a loving and cheerful setting. Adding to the happiness was that...

All my life, I have always wanted to help others. I have seen persecution, racism, and blind hatred for those who are different or deemed...

Is the American Dream dead? It seems such a cliché sometimes to even talk about it. Many have a cynical outlook on it. Maybe it depends...

My family is everything to me. I don’t know how to describe our relationship as anything other than that. My whole life, they have always...

I think it can be easy to lose parts of yourself as you get older. There is never a break in the bustle of work and family life, so you...

Everyone has lived a life of his own, a life that you may never know. I have owned and operated a Chinese restaurant in the United States...