To most of the world, I’m known as the “She Bangs” Guy, the man whose American Idol audition had news outlets dubbing...

A bird loves to feel the wind in his wings and the clouds brushing his feathers as he flies. It is exhilarating. It is his life...

If uninterrupted, I could talk to you about optics (which is the study of light and its properties) for the rest of my life...

I could have easily had a very normal life, had a 9-to-5 job, live paycheck-to-paycheck, and dream of big things without acting...

I was the only girl in my family and had three older brothers. My mom was a teacher and my dad worked in communications...

I grew up in Pune, India, in a middle-class family. My parents had corporate jobs and worked from early morning to late evening to provide..

The country of my mother tongue, my family, a great deal of my childhood, and my culture actually isn’t where I was born...

As the positive comments rolled in at the potluck, I could feel myself begin to float. Maybe I really could do this...

...As a child, I spent most of my time outside. The more time I spent in it, the closer I grew to it, and my love reached further...

my father was a poor shopkeeper with little earnings to feed, clothe, and provide for my mother, my four siblings, and me...

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

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...

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..

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

It was a dream that I’d been chasing since I was a child. But sometimes, the dreams we have can’t last forever...

Growing up, I spent countless hours playing the game, “Operation,” meticulously navigating the clip to avoid touching the metal...

When the going gets tough, the tough get going. This sentence pretty much sums up my whole life...

I remember one time my brothers and I had to avoid drops of blood splattered on the pavement that followed our path to school...