I believe in happiness. Not just the easy joy, when you’re young, of a summer without school or a snowy Christmas. Rather, a deep, abiding happiness. I didn’t always believe this. I figured, until recently, you were born with a...
It is estimated that 19,178,082 people share a birthday on any given day. Imagine if all people wished on their birthday candles. That would be a lot of wishes (and candle smoke). Ever since I could eat cake with a...
I don’t remember much about the morning I found out Granddad had died, except the warm aroma of pumpkin pie and tears tasting like sweat, bitter and boiling. I was just settling into seven. It was November 24, 2005, Thanksgiving...
March 10, 2012—This was the day that I never gave up hope. This day is the saddest day of my life every year because of what could have happen. This was the day that my brother was in a horrible...
911. A day many Americans won’t forget. Luckily, none of my family members were involved, however from this day forward my life was forever changed. Alex was a friend of my sister’s, a boy I did not know. The only...
Our existence is temporary. Time seems to escape us at an existentially faster rate as we mature and it is up to our own discretion on how we spend it. Hardship was a surreal concept to me and the “c”...
As written by the author John Green, “The world is not a wish granting factory”. Unfortunately, I can’t go all Pinocchio and wish upon a star and hope that wish I wish will come true. Ever since I was seven...
The call came to my wife’s cell phone on Christmas Eve, 2010. That Christmas was shaping up to be a Christmas like no other. Just a few days prior we had been given some news that we never thought we...
I am no Zeus or Poseidon, but I am still quite a dynamic character. I know that I may never be able to climb up to the peak of Mt. Everest, come close to becoming the next reality show star...
