But that all changed in the middle of my second year when I had a diabetic onset. The onset, itself, wasn’t too traumatic, seeing as how...

I grew up feeling like an only child, as my siblings were much older. My relationship with my siblings was good, but I didn’t see them...

Jewish families (like my own) lined the streets of my neighborhood, the next neighborhood, and so on. My parents, two older brothers...

My dad worked at IBM as a programmer and was a protective, caring, and loving man. My mom was a professional pianist and the choir...

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...

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...

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...

I grew up in a very close-knit family in Kisumu, Kenya. We were like a big team because we knew we could always rely on each other...

I was the eldest child in my family. We went on a long sea voyage to Malaya, a then-British colony in Southeast Asia. My parents settled...

My mom was a nurse, and my dad was a realtor in Lekki, Lagos. My dad was strict with me since I was the first born, but my mom had a warm...

My early life was not easy because my father was an alcoholic. He would spend more than half of his salary at the local bar drinking...

I grew up thinking I was disposable. Throughout my childhood, I was passed around to several houses until my mother decided to take me...

| This is the 40th story of Our Life Logs | I was fortunate to be raised by the gentlest and kindest woman I’ve ever known. I was an only...

However, this was not something I was able to do from a young age. I had heard stories of children that found their faith and devotion...

Growing up in the dusty countryside of Kenya was fun and typical for girls of my age in the early 1990s. Life was blissful. Sometimes I...

My life was never perfect. I went through some obstacles that would normally scar a child. I experienced losses in my family that pushed...

All the dreams he shared with me, paying my tuition fee and giving me hope in life, were gone. My future became bleak...