Growing up I was as happy as a child should be. We lived in this huge empty neighborhood with only a few houses, so we had a lot of room...

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...

I have always been an easy-going person. Most of my life, I had basically had one mood: happy, more than able to roll with the punches.

Despite being the nation’s capital, the city was very poor. I saw beggars in the streets every day, and my own neighbors could barely...

It’s a late night under an inky sky as I walk across campus from the theatre back to my apartment. The chilly night air rustles past me...

When I close my eyes, I can still see the two sunlit rivers and the wide mountain meadows surrounding our house. I was born on a cold...

I used to love watching my mom do her makeup. I remember how my mom would put me in a highchair when I was just about one or two years...

As the last born in a family of six siblings, I don’t remember much of my childhood until the death of my father in 1997. When my mother...

As my family sat, distraught, a priest entered the room to give my last rites. My blue, lifeless body laid across the table. I wasn’t...

September 1, 2017. To many this was just another day; but for me, it was my last day as a “Ms.” The next day, I was going to say “I do...

I was just another “All-American girl,” born to a hard-working single mom of North Philly in the glorious 90s. My weekends were spent...

It was not by mistake that I was named after my clan, “Nyakach.” My parents must have had great hopes for me when they gave me this name...

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

I had a great childhood full of fun family vacations and playing outside. I mostly hung around with my brothers and their friends, which...

I stood outside in the two-acre backyard of my new home in Hesperia, California. The High Desert became the new place I would call home...

I’ve always been the type of person that would go out and experience something for myself rather than watch someone else do it...

If life were to be pre-programmed, it would kill the fun out of every learning situation. It would be better to be born a zombie than...

I once read somewhere that, “Theatres are modern churches: huddled masses in the dark, looking up at those in the light, telling them...

Living simply has been ingrained in me. I was born in the late 1950s in Danville, Kentucky, and raised by my great-grandmother...

Each one of us has a story. Mine is a tale of a woman who was able to achieve her dreams because of the people along the way. If others...