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Oct 5, 20186 min read
On to the Next Chapter
Growing up I was as happy as a child should be. We lived in this huge empty neighborhood with only a few houses, so we had a lot of room...
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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 21, 20186 min read
For the Better
I have always been an easy-going person. Most of my life, I had basically had one mood: happy, more than able to roll with the punches.
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Sep 13, 20186 min read
The Golden Path
Despite being the nation’s capital, the city was very poor. I saw beggars in the streets every day, and my own neighbors could barely...
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Aug 29, 20187 min read
A Battle Within Myself
It’s a late night under an inky sky as I walk across campus from the theatre back to my apartment. The chilly night air rustles past me...
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Aug 23, 20189 min read
Where There Is Happiness
When I close my eyes, I can still see the two sunlit rivers and the wide mountain meadows surrounding our house. I was born on a cold...
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Aug 17, 20187 min read
It’s Only Beautiful
I used to love watching my mom do her makeup. I remember how my mom would put me in a highchair when I was just about one or two years...
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Aug 13, 20188 min read
Beyond the Stigma
As the last born in a family of six siblings, I don’t remember much of my childhood until the death of my father in 1997. When my mother...
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Aug 10, 20189 min read
To Move Forward
As my family sat, distraught, a priest entered the room to give my last rites. My blue, lifeless body laid across the table. I wasn’t...
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Aug 10, 20187 min read
From Love, Life Abounds
September 1, 2017. To many this was just another day; but for me, it was my last day as a “Ms.” The next day, I was going to say “I do...
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Aug 8, 20189 min read
All-American Girl
I was just another “All-American girl,” born to a hard-working single mom of North Philly in the glorious 90s. My weekends were spent...
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Aug 3, 20187 min read
To Grow Where We Are Planted
It was not by mistake that I was named after my clan, “Nyakach.” My parents must have had great hopes for me when they gave me this name...
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Jul 30, 20189 min read
Fighting for a Purpose
I survived 16 years of military life through premonition, an instinctive survival gift that enabled me to make life saving decisions for...
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Jul 25, 20187 min read
In the Seeking
I had a great childhood full of fun family vacations and playing outside. I mostly hung around with my brothers and their friends, which...
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Jul 25, 20188 min read
All I Ever Knew
I stood outside in the two-acre backyard of my new home in Hesperia, California. The High Desert became the new place I would call home...
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Jul 19, 20186 min read
It’s All Good
I’ve always been the type of person that would go out and experience something for myself rather than watch someone else do it...
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Jul 11, 20187 min read
A Helping Heart
If life were to be pre-programmed, it would kill the fun out of every learning situation. It would be better to be born a zombie than...
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Jul 5, 20188 min read
Lights Fade Up
I once read somewhere that, “Theatres are modern churches: huddled masses in the dark, looking up at those in the light, telling them...
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Jul 5, 20188 min read
The Art of Living
Living simply has been ingrained in me. I was born in the late 1950s in Danville, Kentucky, and raised by my great-grandmother...
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Jul 3, 20188 min read
Beyond My Mistakes
Each one of us has a story. Mine is a tale of a woman who was able to achieve her dreams because of the people along the way. If others...
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