I made it through my high school years, but barely. I attended a large and nationally known high school that boasted 98% of graduates went on to college, mostly Ivy…

I was brave to travel to Scotland on my own, or so I was told. My friends, in particular, were stunned by my decision: How could you go overseas and…

My middle brother, Bill, died of cancer on May 9, 2016, nine months after our father’s passing. The loss of my parents, Mom in 2012, and Dad in July of…

When sleep eludes me, I steal out to the deck of our house to sit in the midnight coolness. After my mother died I’d watch the skies for a shooting…

In middle school, I started ditching class. I’d show up at school in the morning and spend the rest of the day hiding in the bathrooms or skulking around the…

This is not my story alone but Yours within me. The shadows that surrounded me were but You standing beside me. For how would I have known the shadows had…