What if my baby caught it? I knew from that moment that, no matter the cost, I would fight to protect my family.

As a kid, I was very quiet and shy, living in my dream world and imagining how it would be to live with the whales under the water...

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

There are some days that stay in our memory longer than others. They are often the turning points in our journey: when something...

When I head out to my daily walk in the park, I like to remind myself of the poems I love the most, many of which I know by heart...

I believe that an underrated statement is when people say the “mid-life crisis” can change your existence. I should know. Earlier this...

After trying to have a child for fifteen years with no success, my parents had grown desperate and immigrated from Britain to the state...

The human spirit is very resilient. We can pick back up when we fail, and fail, and fail. We can find hope when we are still battling...

For the first 16 years of my life, I never had the courage to stand up for myself. I let people walk all over me. I was meek and lived...