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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 2, 20217 min read
Never Turn Back
I remember washing my armpits in the sink of the bathroom at work, layering on the deodorant, all while hoping nobody would notice the...
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Sep 18, 20207 min read
Through Darkness
For years, I had worked day and night for my sons to get the education they needed so that they could get away from their abusive father
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May 29, 20209 min read
When There Is a Will: A COVID-19 Story
Have you ever seen a potter while he’s at work? The exposure to the right intensity of heat for the perfect amount of time turns...
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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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Mar 5, 20208 min read
She Will Not Live This Way
Growing up, I saw thousands of faces in my town. I was born in Kasur, Punjab, in Pakistan. Kasur is a very small city...
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Dec 13, 20196 min read
To Return to Myself
But what I wish I didn’t remember— what I wish I forgot so completely—was my father’s drinking. My father’s hands as they beat me...
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Dec 12, 20198 min read
The Anatomy of a Warrior
My wheels are a chariot to freedom rather than a temporary crutch to prop me up from the harsh aspects of society...
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Nov 26, 20198 min read
The Great Betrayal
For as long as I can remember, it was always a constant battle for survival...hunger was our close friend...
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May 24, 20197 min read
The Lamb Was Sure to Go
I once met a woman named Mary, and Mary was quite contrary. She loved planting and making things grow. We met in LA, and ever since...
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Apr 19, 20198 min read
It’s All Possible
Sadly, every beautiful story is entangled with a monster. The monsters that haunted my life and broke my sweet laughter were violators...
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Apr 12, 20197 min read
Until the End
I grew up making mud pies and racing as fast as my little legs could take me on my metal-footed pedal car. That’s what my early life...
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Mar 19, 20198 min read
The Recovering Serial Monogamist
It was odd to me how my mother married a man who didn’t seem to understand either one of us. Our passion, empathy, and sensitivity...
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Mar 6, 20198 min read
The Missing Pieces
. My mom moved us to Detroit, Michigan where she later married her second husband, a man who, unfortunately, would beat her...
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Feb 11, 20197 min read
The Last Time
Lying in a steaming bath-tub, water lapped against my naked body. The pressure of the clear liquid surrounding me made the bruises on my...
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Jan 28, 20197 min read
Let It Be
My dad was always in my peripheral vision, but as a busy musician, he never really stayed long enough for me or my older sister to get...
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Jan 25, 20197 min read
To the Other Side
This was the day I was born, miraculously, to a drug-addicted mother who couldn’t take care of me. I was born with fetal alcohol syndrome...
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Jan 22, 20197 min read
To Rise
In 2008, my whole world imploded. Everything I thought was supposed to take place in my life, bar the details, was blown to smithereens...
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Jan 15, 20197 min read
No Longer Yours
I grew up in Arkansas in the 1970s, always searching for someone to love me like a father. My own passed away when I was just six months...
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Jan 7, 20197 min read
My Life Is Not a Tragedy
The sun flowing through the crack of the window was not able to warm up the icy cold that was invading me at every thought of my future...
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