Now comes the hard truth: If you’re not in love with your life, or at least enjoy most aspects of it, it’s not a good time to try and...

| This is the 568th story of Our Life Logs® | I was always a curious child. Wandering around, always wanting to know more and to be more....

The hall reverberated with the sound of applause as my name was called and I strolled to the podium. The space was teeming...

With many, many patients coming his way, my father was highly esteemed—a venerated figure like a god, in fact...

Sometimes, your dream doesn’t line up with how your life is going, and other times, your dream can mold with you...

I often felt fearful as a young girl. My parents struggled to provide for us, causing an air of tension in our home. But if I wanted...

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

And suddenly pop—there I was. Well, it wasn’t so much a pop, and I’m sure there was a whole lot more screaming and bad language, but...

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...

If you are wondering what it was like, just picture farmland, connected to more farmland, all serving as the resting place for groups...

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...

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...

As a child, it seemed like the world around me inspired the power of creativity flowing into my hungry, curious mind. Filled with...

As an only child, I spent most of my childhood with my parents and other adults. I made friends in school, but I was a bit awkward...

The doctors rushed to her aid in a frenzy, not only because she had suffered domestic abuse, but also because she was pregnant with me...

We plant seeds very early in our lives, hoping they will blossom quickly, much like that of honeysuckle. But not every plant is a vine...