Now it’s not every time you see a twenty-something tooting the things she’s learned from her mother – and I ask why not? My mom and I have had quite the journey in our relationship – moments where we were pleasantly plum with each other, and seasons where we were, well, not so chummy. But hiccups […]

It was just me, in the privacy of my room – sitting in the dark and crying bitterly. I had never felt like that before. I was weak with a disease in my body; mentally unsettled because of the medicine I had to use. I had been doing well prior to that – standing on […]

Her body sixteen pounds lighter from the beatings of her past, she wore clothes three times her size to cover its awkwardness. The girl kept people at bay because she did not want to be let down again. She was recovering from her clash with a brick wall. Thus, in her dealings, she was fragile, […]