It’s not wrong to believe that life is unfair and difficult. But the thing is, that’s how it is for everyone...

Being the fourth of fourteen children, there was little love or food to go around in our household, and from an early age, I wanted out...

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

They say that life is a matter of choices, and every choice you make makes you. In my life—in chasing my dreams, in fighting to provide...

I grew up watching how hard my father worked to earn bread for us. Because he was a mason, my father spent his days under the hot sun...

I was born...in Bulgaria to immigrant parents...I was the oldest daughter, with a Turkish father who was a Muslim and a Jewish mother...

That all changed in the summer of 1941, when the Second World War hit our snowy streets. Slowly, food became a luxury...

Tim Han, my mentor and savior, taught me that “Our mess is our message.” So, I guess I have a big message because my life has sure been a...

Did you get a good look at me? Yes? Look closer. You will see how I carry a laugh in each wrinkle and a song in each one of my beard hairs..

I thought I had come alive again and walked away from the past that haunts me. But you see, that past, it fastens itself to me...

When it happened, everyone claimed that the grief would only last a year until I was able to move on, so I consoled myself with this...

As a young girl, my purpose was as fickle as the wind, but my hope was firm. I wanted to be as loved and as encouraging as I knew my dad...

A patient of mine, a World War II veteran, sat in front of me on the examination table. I made a note in his health card and suggested...

Every day, I walk the streets and select a place that is not far off from my walled city of Lahore, Pakistan. I put down a cloth to sit...

My childhood was full of laughter, smiles, and love...I thought back then that nothing could bring me down...

When my father was diagnosed with terminal brain cancer in 2006, I remember an overwhelming feeling of relief. Relief. Who does that?...

I had good, rowdy mates to play Cricket with and go to raucous Saturday morning kids’ movies with, and I went to a private British school...

I was born in 1987 and grew up in Asaba, Delta State, Nigeria with a younger sister and hard-working, loving parents who encouraged me...

My parents broke up when I was still little, and my mom remarried soon after. Our home was full of outbursts of rage from my mom who was...

My father owned an ice cream shop a couple blocks from our house. His dream was a colorful candy store but with the blistering heat...