I believe that people have the right to fail. I’m not saying people should, I’m saying people can. In America, there’s an entrepreneurial spirit; people can get a loan, start a business, and see that flourish. But why does the...
I believe that to truly understand the term, hitting rock bottom, a person has to experience it by taking away everything that he or she owns and live as if he or she has nothing. For years I thought that...
A few years ago, I got divorced. We had to leave the house where our kids grew up, a house we’d worked on for 13 years. We transformed it from a worn 1931 era house, to a warm, comforting cottage....
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...
It has been three weeks since Anna Bates, Lady Mary’s gentle maid, was brutally raped on this season's Downton Abbey first episode. I woke up later that night remembering my own abduction and rape in 1990. My husband and I...
As I pushed through the crowds in the school hallway during my ninth grade year, tears began to flow down my cheeks. My teacher, Mrs. B, drew up next to me, saying "Hi" and then "What's wrong?" I stammered, "I'm...
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...
Fate has a way of altering our lives, regardless if we approve of it or not. Every single little thing we do through out our daily lives shapes who we are. I believe there is a higher power among us...
I believe in flappy bird. I believe in flappy bird because it teaches me life is harder than it looks.One day in last summer vacation,my nine-year-old cousin came to visit me. This time the clingy boy unexpectedly left me alone...
