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Jun 26, 20216 min read
From Surviving to Thriving
Hovering eyes made me believe that I was really something to be looked down upon. They made me believe that I deserved to be mistreated...
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Mar 17, 20218 min read
Then They Were Gone
I caught him lying about money, women—you name it—and we argued about almost everything. One day, I asked him a simple question only to be
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Mar 3, 20215 min read
To Survive Again: A COVID-19 Story
| This is the 564th story of Our Life Logs® | I was born and raised in Las Vegas in the 1960s as an only child. I had a wonderful...
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Feb 19, 20216 min read
When It All Burns Down
I woke up choking on smoke.
My eyes burned from the heat. My room was filled with thick black clouds. I tried to search for my walker...
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Feb 9, 20216 min read
My Brother, Valentin
Originally, my parents planned on filing for citizenship when they had the money. But, that’s the problem with raising four kids...
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Feb 5, 20217 min read
Brighter Days Are Waiting
| This is the 558th story of Our Life Logs® | My name is Felicia, but people call me Foxy because my high cheekbones and dark chocolate...
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Jan 15, 20216 min read
What I Didn't See Before: A COVID-19 Story
As I watched my son get dirt on his clothes and static from the slide in his hair, I realized...
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Jan 11, 20218 min read
Another New Normal
| This is the 552nd story of Our Life Logs® | As people, we like to believe that there’s something called “normalcy,” normalcy referring...
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Jan 8, 20217 min read
Here’s to My Only Son
| This is the 551st story of Our Life Logs® | The year was 1981. I was fresh out of high school in Las Vegas, Nevada, and I had just...
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Oct 28, 20206 min read
Living Proof: A Tale of Two Pandemics
It was a tough reality to come to terms with: now I had an opioid addiction and a global pandemic on top of that to worry about. I was
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Jul 24, 20207 min read
Life as an Essential Employee: A COVID-19 Story
Everyone began viewing everyone else as suspicious—what if you have it? Are you the one that will get me sick? Are you like Typhoid Mary?
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Jun 5, 20208 min read
On Shaken Ground
I even felt my dad betrayed me. Why did he even bother to sit and draw with me if this is what would happen in the end?
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Jun 3, 20207 min read
A Missing Piece of My Puzzle
To understand my story, you must know a bit of my mom’s. Sherry, my mom, was only 16 when she had me, and while my father continued
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May 26, 20207 min read
From Trauma to Freedom
In that moment, my body was no longer mine; I couldn’t move or speak. He didn’t speak either. The only sound was his heavy breathing...
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May 21, 20208 min read
One Look Changed Everything
She named me Bradley Currie Jenkins, giving me her last name because her boyfriend, my dad, wasn’t interested with me...
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May 18, 20209 min read
How Far I’ve Come
I released my hands as I realized I had been squeezing them tight around the barber’s chair. The best I could do to occupy my mind...
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May 14, 20206 min read
A Wandering Jew
“But why?”
This became the epitome of my childhood and the main source of migraines for my parents...
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May 11, 20208 min read
Who I Am at the End of the Journey
My mother had what some would call a “dirty” pregnancy, meaning my parents weren’t together and my father wasn’t in the picture...
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May 7, 20207 min read
A Matter of Life and Death and Limb
I’m an athlete through and through, model year 1983...I was someone always in motion... But what happens when that motion is tested...
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May 5, 20208 min read
On My Own: A COVID-19 Story
I worked hard to stop the well of tears about to gush out of me. I bit my lip to choke down the sob threatening to escape from my throat...
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