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Every year on this very day, I am reminded of all the things I take for granted, of all the things I should be more grateful for, of all...

When I was seventeen, just recently graduated high school and exploring my faith, I wrote this beautiful piece that was supposed to be a...

Although we love to claim otherwise, we are perhaps the generation that is most obsessed with perfection. And not in a way that attempts...

Among the many scourges of growing up, one is that it becomes increasingly difficult to dream. You wake up one day and you realize that...

The day Luyando slit her wrist, she let the water run while she sat in the tab, a comfortable warmth wrapping her in. She did not realize...

My father died when I was 3 years old. I have no recollection of him. The most vivid memory I have pertaining to him is being in a room I...

I thought about how laborious it had become to do for her. My mother taught me to do for a woman, taught me that my actions were the loudest

I’m at this weird age where the pressure to get it right is immense. You know, you have to make the right choices. Show up every day. Be...

It is often incredibly difficult to see whether or not you are moving if you so focused on where you are and where you are headed without...

Dear management, I fear the day will come when you will tire of my inability to properly express myself verbally and my need to resort to...

A simple truth is that we cannot limit our goals to a particular timeframe. How can we when it is neither you nor I that controls the...

See, when God made you and I, He factored in our stupidity. He knew we’d be here, racking up ridiculous decision after ridiculous decision.

When I was thirsty earlier this morning, I rolled out of my bed and strode across the house to our kitchen. The compartment of the...

Sometimes making it through the day is a massive enough victory; sometimes that is more than enough...

I had always thought it funny how easy it was to speak and look down from our thrones of morality upon those in whose shoes we had not walke

Jump, kid… jump. For you learn nothing more of what lies at the bottom of the cliff by just looking over the edge. Nor do your...

Please do not feel pressured to always be happy. It’s okay that there are moments in which you aren’t, moments in which you feel sad or...

To Pops As per his routine at the time, Pops grabbed his coat off the hook on the back of the front door and started to head out just...

I’ve been writing ever since my 5-year-old fingers could fiddle a pen. I realized very early on that I was a bad talker, and if I were to...

You know, fear has been such a big part of my life thus far that I do not think it is, in itself, as horrible a thing as it is made out...

You know you ought to be much, much kinder to yourself, right? Life, people and the world are already so hard on you. The last thing you...

To: Lu. Hey you, I suppose there’s very little, if anything at all, I could do to surprise you now seeing how well you know me. I hadn’t...

“Dear friend, When you tell me about your troubles and struggles, when you lay your all pain bare for me to see, as though pain were a...