My parents got married in the ‘70s. Twenty years later, I guess they figured it was about time to have a child. That’s where I came...

You never think it’s going to be you until it is. And then it is...

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

I guess it all started when my father got his big break. During his rookie years, the law firm he was working for had been given...

Growing up, I’ve noticed that many people, especially men, think they are entitled to a lot from a woman. They think they have the right...

I was a very reclusive child and a runaway kid. There was already so much going on inside my head and I couldn’t handle the overload...

As one of my favorite poems says, “Thursday’s child has far to go.” I was destined to go afar...

My mom had five children to two different men, and I was the second. We were all girls and close in age...

My family was considered small because it was common in our country for families to have more than four children...

My new parents were loving, good-hearted people who tried to adopt children with special needs who otherwise might not get the care they...

When I was young, my parents moved to Minnesota, to a town of 600 people. So, from the start, I was raised a bit separate from society...

I had a good early childhood...However, happiness is easy to be interrupted. All that changed when I started secondary school...

The sun came out not long after I was born on a chilly morning in August of 1987 in the heart of Transylvania, Romania. In the black...

My health anxiety, the irrational fear of being or becoming ill, leads me to manifest symptoms of sicknesses I’m afraid of catching...

As a young girl, my parents sensed that things weren’t right with me. I would jump back and forth between doing things. I would start...

But the most prominent memories from my childhood involve my hands gravitating constantly towards my face and my skin...

Quirky and awkward. That’s how most people saw me in middle school and high school. I was the big kid with clumsiness in his DNA...

While many women in their 20s were enjoying college life, my mom was trying to keep up with her classes and work two jobs all while she...

I grew up thinking I was disposable. Throughout my childhood, I was passed around to several houses until my mother decided to take me...