What Ever Happened to William Hung?
To most of the world, I’m known as the “She Bangs” Guy, the man whose American Idol audition had news outlets dubbing...
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Mar 9, 20208 min read
In an Ocean of Darkness
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...
Mar 6, 20208 min read
To Explain the Universe
If uninterrupted, I could talk to you about optics (which is the study of light and its properties) for the rest of my life...
Feb 26, 20207 min read
A New Way to Lead
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...
Feb 24, 20208 min read
The Color Reel
I was the only girl in my family and had three older brothers. My mom was a teacher and my dad worked in communications...
Feb 12, 20207 min read
I Am More Than a Resumé
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..
Feb 7, 20208 min read
To Learn of Freedom
The country of my mother tongue, my family, a great deal of my childhood, and my culture actually isn’t where I was born...
Jan 15, 20208 min read
Life Is What You Bake It
As the positive comments rolled in at the potluck, I could feel myself begin to float. Maybe I really could do this...
Dec 6, 20198 min read
Debora Niwa, Wife of the Elephants
...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...
Nov 22, 20196 min read
Do Not Lose Heart
my father was a poor shopkeeper with little earnings to feed, clothe, and provide for my mother, my four siblings, and me...
Nov 6, 20197 min read
The Traveler from Southeast Asia
I was born into a lower-middle class family in the late 1980s in a small town in West Java. Yes, like the coffee...
Oct 28, 20197 min read
I Feel My Roots
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...
Oct 27, 20197 min read
Where Do I Belong?
I, on the other hand, couldn’t focus on academics and seemed to always fall behind my peers. My teachers were telling me...
Oct 27, 20197 min read
A Dream Is All It Took
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...
Oct 22, 20198 min read
Against the Odds
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..
Oct 17, 20197 min read
To Find Happiness
What makes a happy life? Wealth? Success? Passion? For many years, I tried to figure out how to be happy. Turns out...
Oct 14, 20196 min read
A Speedy Recovery
It was a dream that I’d been chasing since I was a child. But sometimes, the dreams we have can’t last forever...
Oct 7, 20197 min read
Where We Land
Growing up, I spent countless hours playing the game, “Operation,” meticulously navigating the clip to avoid touching the metal...
Oct 6, 20197 min read
What Lies Within Us
When the going gets tough, the tough get going. This sentence pretty much sums up my whole life...
Sep 27, 20197 min read
The Light That Shows Me the Way
I remember one time my brothers and I had to avoid drops of blood splattered on the pavement that followed our path to school...
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