My young whirring mind was as sharp as a whetstone, always looking to gain more knowledge. I was fascinated by how things worked...

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...

I did not come into a perfectly happy world upon my birth in 1883. My mother had always blamed my father for disappearing into his dirty...

Our small, close-knit family was overflowing with love and happiness. I was a chubby little girl who loved packing her stomach with...

It was odd to me how my mother married a man who didn’t seem to understand either one of us. Our passion, empathy, and sensitivity...

At 100 years old, I’ve roamed the earth longer than many. I watched the Prohibition, Elvis Presley, and over a dozen presidents come and...

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...

But then…it was all over, and they divorced when I was just three years old. My dad moved on to yet another young gorgeous woman...

With so little to do, teenagers hung out and partied in the barns. Life in our community was slow—with the exception of the one...

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

Sometimes our plans are not “our” plans. Life has a funny way of showing you that. Buckle up, because you’re in for a wild story...

When I was growing up, the world of the LGBT community was almost strictly for homosexuals, and the idea of being transgender was taboo...

There are some days that stay in our memory longer than others. They are often the turning points in our journey: when something...

. My mom moved us to Detroit, Michigan where she later married her second husband, a man who, unfortunately, would beat her...

I’d climb on the roof of the house. I knew it was forbidden, but it felt like a faraway and mystical place. It still kind of is...

My biological father only stayed in the picture for a few months before leaving. Since then, it was like my mother cropped him out...

But even so, my existence was not enough to save her beautiful soul. To know my story, you must know my mother’s first...

Have you ever met someone that was such a complement to your soul that meeting them was like discovering a color you had never seen...

I, conversely, was born with a creative mind and a depressive disorder that manifested in some of the worst and weirdest ways. My talent...