My parents married really young and had a total of 12 kids. Sadly, eight died in infancy, leaving them only four to raise...

More to get him to shut up than anything else, I walked to the sliding glass doors. I’ll be damned. Two dudes were climbing the fence...

Good, no one had robbed me of my pain pills. I pulled out my trusty relievers and tossed a handful back. I could be without a home...

I mean things started out pretty normal I guess, but at the age of three, my mom committed suicide due to drugs and alcohol...

Coming from a conservative town, no one cared to learn why I didn’t have a dad. They just judged my siblings and me for it...

Being the granddaughter of a famed, yet tormented writer is both a blessing and a curse. My grandmother and the other women in my line...

I’ve always heard people say that nothing good ever happens after midnight. For the longest time I found that to be true of my birth...

Most living things remain what they were at birth, however, a butterfly was once a caterpillar, and at the risk of waxing poetic, I...

While many women in their 20s were enjoying college life, my mom was trying to keep up with her classes and work two jobs all while she...

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.

I was a “surprise” to my parents because they were already in their mid-40s when I came along. My two brothers were much older than me...