I was born with a rare genetic disorder that wasn’t properly diagnosed until I was two years old. The doctors discovered...

...Lagos, Nigeria, a sparsely over-populated city with a mix of lifestyles and cultures. It was like the America of Nigeria...

I guess it all started when my father got his big break. During his rookie years, the law firm he was working for had been given...

It often feels like an unbearable privilege to write and make a simple living from taking all those wonderful and horrible patterns...

...They also showed me the harsh reality of life and death. Knowing that one day we’d be here and the next we’d not always terrified me...

You see, I was born to be a free bird. Starting from a very young age, I was fond of traveling, socializing with others, and exploring...

I was born into a lower-middle class family in the late 1980s in a small town in West Java. Yes, like the coffee...

I received no further explanation, just a request to pack up and leave the premises. It didn’t feel real. I had so much riding on this job..

...That person that put her own self through that suffering—but I can so easily flashback to how it felt, in those days, to be bulimic...

We would grow up, and things from our childhood would start making sense. But some things are always going to be beyond our comprehension...

Behind every proverb, there is experience and reflection. Now, I don’t claim to know it all, but I know what I’ve lived...

My city, Karachi, is simply magical. It’s one of the largest, most populated cities in the world and it is the economic hub of Pakistan...

I, on the other hand, couldn’t focus on academics and seemed to always fall behind my peers. My teachers were telling me...

As a kid, my father used to tell me that “life is not a bed of roses,” and now I wish I would have taken him seriously...

When one of them disappears, it threatens the whole system, and in my case, my entire being. I was forced to rebuild my life and myself...

Growing up, I’ve noticed that many people, especially men, think they are entitled to a lot from a woman. They think they have the right...

I’m sure my mother didn’t like being away from me, but at the time, the northern region of the country was the only place a woman of color..

I was born into what became a large family of eleven children. As I was one of the oldest, I had new siblings on an almost yearly basis...

What makes a happy life? Wealth? Success? Passion? For many years, I tried to figure out how to be happy. Turns out...

But no matter where we lived, I was a smart high achiever. No kidding. We were a family of hard-workers and I loved going to school...