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...

For as long as I can remember, all I desired was a simple life for my family, alone in the wilderness. This wasn’t without struggle...

Growing up, my parents encouraged me to pursue all the dreams I could think of. I remember my dad’s words that have always stayed...

I always looked up to him, though I must admit I played the part of an annoying little sister perfectly. He teased me mercilessly—not...

And while both were “uneducated” (in the sense that my father dropped out after 8th grade, and my mother had never been to school a day...

The car was gone, and all our things were destroyed. I stood in front of our rented house and panicked wondering what to do. We didn’t...

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...

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...