“Our parents were raised in different countries which didn’t carry out the same educational system. We realized we’d like to change that for FUTURE generations.”
‘I know this, I just don’t know how to get YOU to know.’ I could see how difficult it was for her.’: 3 women become teachers together, ‘We are raising the future’
‘Our struggles are NOT isolated. You DESERVE to be supported.’: Yogi gives coping tips for mental health awareness month
“DON’T shy away from being held up by others. It’s a DAILY battle.”
‘The doctor said, ‘Put your camera down. There’s something on her skin.’ She was born in a hard, thick cocoon.’: Girl with Harlequin Ichthyosis proves ‘beauty is not just skin deep’
“Soon, the tips of her fingers fell off. One grandma asked, ‘Why didn’t you put sunscreen on your daughter?’ as if she was burnt. I couldn’t believe that came out of her mouth.”
‘The doctor said, ‘I’m pretty sure this is something you’ll live with for the rest of your life. Good luck.’: Woman diagnosed with lupus says ‘we are warriors’
“I sat the phone down and ugly cried in my car. I was only 27. I wasn’t supposed to be sick.”
‘He was in tears. ‘Baby, it’s bad news.’ It was our last conversation. He was unable to talk the very next day.’: Widowed mother ‘piecing life back together’ after tragic loss of husband
“I watched my gorgeous husband’s body betray him. I held my breath, waiting for him to take another, but it didn’t happen. The woman I was died with him.”
‘My sister is dead. Her babies… I don’t even have money to feed them.’ Their mom was murdered in front of them by their father. They had no one.’: Woman adopts brothers
“He sent me a video of his sister’s lifeless body being pulled from the river. ‘We have to save these boys.’”
‘I met a girl at a party last weekend. Funniest girl I’ve ever met. So I tried to be hilarious, too. And it made me feel tired.’: Woman shares important journey to self-love, ‘I’m my own bully’
“I saw a mom at my son’s school yesterday. She packed her kids healthy lunches and they actually freaking ate them. So last night I tried to force-feed my kids carrots and meatloaf, and they cried.”
‘Oh, I know Papa Luis!’ His big brown eyes looked at me. ‘He was sitting on a cloud with me when I was waiting to be born.’: Boy details meeting grandpa who passed from lung cancer in heaven
“He said matter-of-factly, ‘Papa Luis sat with me on a cloud and told me it would soon be my turn, and not to worry. God just had to find the perfect family for me.’ I hugged him with tears in my eyes.”
‘I heard her whisper, ‘This isn’t a movie… this is your life now.’ They don’t have our last name, we just ARE.’: Woman adopts 8 after feeling ’magnetically, divinely drawn’
“We learned to make Haitian legume and they learned to make Nashville hot chicken. We learned to dance Koompa and they learned to two-step. I can’t imagine us being any more family than this.”
‘One day he sat me down and said, ‘Stop bullsh-tting. Start your OWN non-profit.’ It was the little push I needed.’: Young woman opens non-profit animal rescue
“My love for animals had been inside my soul forever. It was the little push I needed.”