On hot summer nights, my parents would pack up a picnic and take my us to the beach by the lake. The cool water breeze off the lake was...

Growing up I was an extremely naughty kid who loved to mess with people. Most of the time, it was all in good fun, but I remember one...

When people look at me, they see a happy woman, slow to take and quick to give. What they don’t know is the harsh truth under this smile...

In 1999, my parents faced some financial struggles, so Grammy and Grandpa opened the door to us. It was just like the weekends we...

My parents were very alert people, writers who valued the fundamental rights of humans. The arts took the place of religion in our family...

I was born on August 18, 1988 to a timid mother and a drug-addicted father. My father was in the picture for the first six months of...

My mother used to say that struggle is a person’s middle name. People are always struggling, if not physically then for sure mentally...

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...

As a boy, I was enamored by my father’s sharp business suits and his title of a lawyer. While I looked up to him, I did so at a distance...

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...

What I know for sure is that every soul on this earth needs an escape, an outlet, a safe harbor in which to lose themselves and, ideally...

As a little boy, I would help my father sell fresh cookies in the streets of our city, Lahore. We woke up early on many mornings...

But things wouldn’t always be so perfect. The world is full of sick, twisted people, and not before long, I became the target...

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...

If you are wondering what it was like, just picture farmland, connected to more farmland, all serving as the resting place for groups...

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...