Carve Out Courage
Courage is found in kindness. It’s everywhere and it’s ready to take hold of your heart as soon as you give it enough room...
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Feb 7, 20208 min read
To Learn of Freedom
The country of my mother tongue, my family, a great deal of my childhood, and my culture actually isn’t where I was born...
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Jan 22, 20208 min read
I Am Not Weak
I’ve often wondered what drove me to have those wicked thoughts of wanting to commit suicide. Did I, in fact, have a mental illness?...
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Dec 31, 20198 min read
Facing Down Demons
15 miles over in the town of Chilhowie. This is the place I consider my childhood home and where my story truly began...
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Dec 12, 20198 min read
The Anatomy of a Warrior
My wheels are a chariot to freedom rather than a temporary crutch to prop me up from the harsh aspects of society...
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Nov 19, 20196 min read
At the Start of My Journey
My childhood was not sweet, to say the least. Instead of love and security, it was filled with mockery and humiliation...
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Aug 12, 20197 min read
The Choice to Live
At the time, my father was unemployed and my mother was the teen-mom stereotype. They were already burdened with a daughter before me...
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Aug 10, 20198 min read
To Smile Is to Heal
My mom had five children to two different men, and I was the second. We were all girls and close in age...
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Aug 7, 20197 min read
The Courage to Move On
Together, they built a family. I had an unusual childhood as my siblings and I were the only mixed-race children in the town...
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Jul 29, 20198 min read
A Misfit’s Redemption
I knew my peers, for we had been playing football in the streets since we could walk. Just as any normal kid would, I settled...
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Jul 26, 20196 min read
Embracing My Differences
My parents had a marriage of love. I say this because my dad hails from India where he first had an arranged marriage to a girl he barely...
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Jul 24, 20198 min read
There Is Freedom
Growing up, I always felt that I was a bit different. I was fascinated by other girls—their outfits, their beauty, their spirit...
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Jun 18, 20197 min read
At the Foot of the Mountain
I couldn’t focus in school and started flunking my classes. Then, I started hanging out with the wrong crowd, which is where I met Sammy...
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Jun 11, 20197 min read
When the Sky Is Gray
I had a good early childhood...However, happiness is easy to be interrupted. All that changed when I started secondary school...
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Apr 23, 20197 min read
Always Beginning
I believe that all experiences in life are the stepping stones that eventually lead to one’s truth. And so, I would like to share my...
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Feb 11, 20197 min read
The Last Time
Lying in a steaming bath-tub, water lapped against my naked body. The pressure of the clear liquid surrounding me made the bruises on my...
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Jan 30, 20197 min read
In the Game of Life
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...
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Oct 30, 20188 min read
Running Deeper Than Friends
I pried my eyes away from the TV screen to look out the window, to the trees, to the sunlight…to that strange world out there that gave...
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Sep 24, 20186 min read
Faith Beyond Words
I used to think that my stutter would limit me, but now I see that it is all a matter of perspective and choosing not to worry...
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Aug 31, 20186 min read
What Was Missing
My mother was still a student when she had me and literally had to take her final exams with me crying my lungs out next to her...
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