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Nov 14, 20187 min read
A Climbing Spirit
“I’m kicking you out. Come get your stuff.”
I was 16 when I read this devastating text from my stepfather. No money. No job. And now ...
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Nov 9, 20186 min read
When I Lost, I Became
On hot summer nights, my parents would pack up a picnic and take my us to the beach by the lake. The cool water breeze off the lake was...
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Nov 4, 20187 min read
In My Wildest Dreams
In 1999, my parents faced some financial struggles, so Grammy and Grandpa opened the door to us. It was just like the weekends we...
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Nov 1, 20186 min read
Tumbling into Joy
I was born on August 18, 1988 to a timid mother and a drug-addicted father. My father was in the picture for the first six months of...
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Oct 31, 20187 min read
Life as We Know It
My mother used to say that struggle is a person’s middle name. People are always struggling, if not physically then for sure mentally...
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Oct 30, 20188 min read
Running Deeper Than Friends
I pried my eyes away from the TV screen to look out the window, to the trees, to the sunlight…to that strange world out there that gave...
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Oct 24, 20187 min read
I Will Carry You Through the Darkness
The car was gone, and all our things were destroyed. I stood in front of our rented house and panicked wondering what to do. We didn’t...
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Oct 22, 20187 min read
Art Saved My Life
What I know for sure is that every soul on this earth needs an escape, an outlet, a safe harbor in which to lose themselves and, ideally...
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Oct 19, 20186 min read
A Peddler’s Dream
As a little boy, I would help my father sell fresh cookies in the streets of our city, Lahore. We woke up early on many mornings...
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Oct 18, 20187 min read
Survival of the Innocent
But things wouldn’t always be so perfect. The world is full of sick, twisted people, and not before long, I became the target...
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Oct 17, 20187 min read
The Way We Conquer
These were the questions of a nine-year-old boy, the eldest child in the home, unaware of the coming hardships he might have to face...
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Oct 12, 20187 min read
Far Beyond Kentucky
If you are wondering what it was like, just picture farmland, connected to more farmland, all serving as the resting place for groups...
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Oct 12, 20186 min read
Love Finds a Way
I was an only child and that contributed to me being a shy introvert, uncomfortable with people until my teenage years. Despite my social...
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Oct 11, 20186 min read
Eudaimonia; To Have Enough
Sadly, she wasn’t taught to make her own needs a priority in life. It was a product of the time, when sexism more avidly kept women in...
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Oct 5, 20187 min read
To Keep the Soul Alive
I was born in 1985, in a country that doesn’t exist on the map anymore. But, the land is still here and the land is still the same...
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Oct 4, 20186 min read
To the Girl Who Dreams
Big or small, everyone makes plans for their future. As a girl who loved to dream, I had made plenty. Whether we lose ourselves in...
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Sep 28, 20186 min read
As It Happens
When my mother was pregnant with me, all the family had been expecting a baby girl. Though when the morning came, they were quite shocked...
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Sep 26, 20187 min read
Until the Tears Dry
I weighed a little over two pounds. I was so premature that no one thought I would survive, but God had different plans for me...
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Sep 26, 20187 min read
To Bear the Past
Most of my fond memories were spending time with my parents and two younger siblings: putting up the Christmas tree together; enjoying...
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Sep 24, 20186 min read
To Keep Me Young
I’ve worked many jobs in my 92 years of living. I’ve been a sailor, an aircraft engineer, an experimental designer for a college...
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