As one of my favorite poems says, “Thursday’s child has far to go.” I was destined to go afar...

My parents taught us to work hard, help our neighbors and be respectful of others. My mum worked in an office and...

My mom had five children to two different men, and I was the second. We were all girls and close in age...

If you didn’t know, The Troubles refer to a nasty civil dispute that spanned over 30 years between the British and Irish...

My family was considered small because it was common in our country for families to have more than four children...

My new parents were loving, good-hearted people who tried to adopt children with special needs who otherwise might not get the care they...

I had an eventful and adventure-filled childhood because I was a wild kid. I always found myself in trouble with just about everyone...

When I was young, my parents moved to Minnesota, to a town of 600 people. So, from the start, I was raised a bit separate from society...

I had a good early childhood...However, happiness is easy to be interrupted. All that changed when I started secondary school...

The sun came out not long after I was born on a chilly morning in August of 1987 in the heart of Transylvania, Romania. In the black...

It was as if this passion for film was already in my blood. I mean, come on. Kelsey Parris the Filmmaker. It had a good ring to it. Since...

I remember my dad’s smiling face and my mom’s calming aura. Those are the images I cherish—the time before I lost my innocence to...

My childhood was a tangled mess of emotions that I still have a difficult time unraveling. There were some good memories...

My childhood was full of laughter, smiles, and love...I thought back then that nothing could bring me down...

I grew up in Taiwan, South Korea, and Hawaii, floating back and forth between the three places to see my father who was an influential...

My health anxiety, the irrational fear of being or becoming ill, leads me to manifest symptoms of sicknesses I’m afraid of catching...

As a young girl, my parents sensed that things weren’t right with me. I would jump back and forth between doing things. I would start...

But then…it was all over, and they divorced when I was just three years old. My dad moved on to yet another young gorgeous woman...

But the most prominent memories from my childhood involve my hands gravitating constantly towards my face and my skin...

When I was growing up, the world of the LGBT community was almost strictly for homosexuals, and the idea of being transgender was taboo...