I’ve always been full of positivity and a little bit of sass. I guess I just love making people laugh. As a kid, I was known for being...

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...

These were the questions of a nine-year-old boy, the eldest child in the home, unaware of the coming hardships he might have to face...

I was an only child and that contributed to me being a shy introvert, uncomfortable with people until my teenage years. Despite my social...

Sadly, she wasn’t taught to make her own needs a priority in life. It was a product of the time, when sexism more avidly kept women in...

I was born in 1985, in a country that doesn’t exist on the map anymore. But, the land is still here and the land is still the same...

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...

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...

I weighed a little over two pounds. I was so premature that no one thought I would survive, but God had different plans for me...

Most of my fond memories were spending time with my parents and two younger siblings: putting up the Christmas tree together; enjoying...

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 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.

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’ve been playing in metal bands since I was in high school. From the moment I heard the thunderous fast-paced chug of the melody, I was...

Though the city was tinged with gang violence, I roamed the neighborhoods without fear; a free-spirited soul I was. After playing outside...

As a child, it seemed like the world around me inspired the power of creativity flowing into my hungry, curious mind. Filled with...

When I was born, I was assigned male. I grew up in a conservative, Christian suburb of Chicago, Illinois in the 1970s. In those Triassic...

Nothing melts my heart like watching the little smile on a baby’s face. The clutched tiny hands, the feet kicking freely in the air—just...

Loud voices painted the walls of my family’s house in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. We shared laughter and home-cooked meals at our large...