I grew up feeling like an only child, as my siblings were much older. My relationship with my siblings was good, but I didn’t see them...

My father left my hometown of Harrison, Arkansas when I was still a baby and never came back to us, and my mother’s on-again-off-again...

I grew up in Arkansas in the 1970s, always searching for someone to love me like a father. My own passed away when I was just six months...

Times in the southern US during the 1940s and 1950s were trying ones, indeed. We were poor. I guess you could say “dirt poor.” I remember...

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

I always looked up to him, though I must admit I played the part of an annoying little sister perfectly. He teased me mercilessly—not...

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...

My dad worked at IBM as a programmer and was a protective, caring, and loving man. My mom was a professional pianist and the choir...

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...

The car was gone, and all our things were destroyed. I stood in front of our rented house and panicked wondering what to do. We didn’t...

What I know for sure is that every soul on this earth needs an escape, an outlet, a safe harbor in which to lose themselves and, ideally...

After trying to have a child for fifteen years with no success, my parents had grown desperate and immigrated from Britain to the state...

When my mother was pregnant with me, all the family had been expecting a baby girl. Though when the morning came, they were quite shocked...

HIV/AIDS infiltrated my family, first taking my father when I was three and then my three-month-old brother soon after. After my father...

I grew up in a very close-knit family in Kisumu, Kenya. We were like a big team because we knew we could always rely on each other...

I was the eldest child in my family. We went on a long sea voyage to Malaya, a then-British colony in Southeast Asia. My parents settled...

My mom was a nurse, and my dad was a realtor in Lekki, Lagos. My dad was strict with me since I was the first born, but my mom had a warm...

As the youngest and only girl in my family, I was spoiled a lot and had tons of fun when I was little. I remember coming down the stairs...

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

I was always considered a weird kid, which didn’t sit well with my Jewish parents who desperately wanted everything in life to be “normal..