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...

My mom was a nurse, and my dad was a realtor in Lekki, Lagos. My dad was strict with me since I was the first born, but my mom had a warm...

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...

With politics dividing this country, and “Nazi” being used on both sides of the divide, I often wonder how people can come back together...

They were highly skilled musicians, but unfortunately, our family was very poor because neither of my parents made much at their teaching...

As the youngest and only girl in my family, I was spoiled a lot and had tons of fun when I was little. I remember coming down the stairs...

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

I was always considered a weird kid, which didn’t sit well with my Jewish parents who desperately wanted everything in life to be “normal..

Let me take you back to when I was just six years old. My chronic asthma was a plague against my childhood, as I was in the hospital more...

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...

Growing up, we never thought we lacked anything because everyone in the village seemed to have exactly what your family had. If you ate...

My oldest sister Katherine died after just 36 hours of life, and my next sister, Cathy, was diagnosed with Cystic Fibrosis at two years...

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

I was the sixth born in a family of nine siblings. Though I was meek, being my mother’s last born offered me the protection I needed...

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...

At the time, Pablo Escobar, a drug lord and narco-terrorist, was wreaking havoc in Colombia and my parents didn’t feel that living there...

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...