I was just a teenager watching my mother grow weak. And when she was gone, my father was not the type to take over her caring spirit. He was

It took about 12 hours before the search and rescue team found Eloy’s lifeless body on a sandbank. I called my mother-in-law, repeating the

| This is the 563rd story of Our Life Logs® | Rat-tat-tat-tat! I yelled. I screamed. I couldn’t move. I was ready to die. I am originally...

As we gathered up belongings we could fit in our hands, we sulked out the door, knowing that life was never going to be the same after this.

We spoke with my father on the phone right before he was put on a ventilator. My heart broke as I apologized to him that I couldn’t take

My parents waited anxiously for my birth as I was their first child. They loved me like no other and dotted over me, but our poverty...

When looking back at those days, I marvel at how far I have come. Maybe it was luck. Maybe it was desperation. Maybe I will never find out..

I think I realized early on that I could either be really bitter about it, or I could gain a lot of really great life skills...

My father made little money as a government officer and could not afford to take care of us kids...

Each time we visited the hospital with the fear that this would be the time, the moment life would leave my father...

Growing up in a very strict Christian family, I was expected to settle down and start a family. As I waited for Mr. Right...

Even now I’m still stunned when I think of the way it all went so fantastically to hell in front of my eyes...

To me, my father, my so-called “hero,” single-handedly ruined my life and my family, all over a personal dispute...

My father was a police officer, and my mother ran a small shop. My life started out normal...

Behind every proverb, there is experience and reflection. Now, I don’t claim to know it all, but I know what I’ve lived...

As a kid, my father used to tell me that “life is not a bed of roses,” and now I wish I would have taken him seriously...

Located at the extreme north of Pakistan, Nathia Gali is considered to be one of the most beautiful and scenic places in Pakistan...

I loved my mom, but I didn’t get much time with her because she had bad lungs. She already had asthma, but her job only worsened...

They say that daughters are a blessing, but that was not my reality. You see...for years, I blamed myself for my mother’s death...

I went to public school until my first year of middle school, and after that, I left and went to school on an army base...