| This is the 39th story of Our Life Logs | “The very fact that you have a desire or a dream means that you have the corresponding...

| This is the 38th story of Our Life Logs | I’ve been married three times to people who tried to break me. I am not a quitter. I never...

Motherhood was all I ever dreamed of while I was growing up. My boyfriends were all evaluated through the lens of whether they would make...

However, this was not something I was able to do from a young age. I had heard stories of children that found their faith and devotion...

My family and friends were there, and it was what I was used to. I wanted to travel to other countries, but I always thought I’d come...

I watch people go through life planning everything out and feel disappointed when something doesn’t go according to the plan. Yes, you...

I was born with a birth defect that made one of my legs much shorter than the other. When people hear about this, they assume that I’m...

When both of your marriages end because of infidelity, it can be hard to trust that there’s honest love out there anymore. Moving forward...

Growing up in the dusty countryside of Kenya was fun and typical for girls of my age in the early 1990s. Life was blissful. Sometimes I...

I had five siblings and we were raised by our mother. Our father was away working in the city most of the year, and sadly he passed away...

My life was never perfect. I went through some obstacles that would normally scar a child. I experienced losses in my family that pushed...

I’ve been working for a maintenance company for 31 years. Everyone knows me as the maintenance guy, but I haven’t always lived this life...

I couldn’t remember the last time dad wasn’t sick. Mom had never been consistently in my life due to her mental illness. Dad did a great...

When I hear someone say that there’s no hope for an addict, I can’t help but shake my head. If someone like me can come back from all...

The north is prosperous while most of the south is impoverished. We lived on the southern side of the province. My family was immensely...

It seemed that loss followed me wherever I went. Life kept throwing me curve-balls, but I tried not to stay down for long. I learned that...

I did not have an easy beginning. The terror of sexual abuse haunted my adolescence, but I didn’t let that stop me from rising above it...

After her husband, my grandfather, left her a few years into their young marriage, she decided to raise their two daughters, my mother...

Everything I had touched in my life had so far become a disappointment, and I wanted to end it all. My life flashed before my eyes as I...

But thoughts of death don’t just go away. They linger like the plague. They interject themselves at every turn and persuade you that life...