<a href="https://www.freepixel.com/images/free-illustration-graphics-a-woman-in-a-red-dress-sits-on-a-stack-of-books-engrossed-in-reading-the-books-are-arranged-in-a-nea-1004508538">"Woman Reading on a Stack of Books"</a> is licensed under <a target="_blank" href="">CC BY </a> Hardship. No one likes it. We try to avoid it by pursuing happiness and stability - all the wonderful things we hope to gain. Yet trials inevitably come. They’re part of this wild, amazing, gut-wrenchin

"Cartoon Hand Drawn Girl Holding Mobile Phone Walking Elements" by PngTree is licensed under CC BY 4.0 Excerpt from Dad, Mom, Jehovah, and Me: Part Two - Chapter 1 When I was twenty-four, Keith and I received an unexpected gift—a daughter—who late one evening came into the world wanting not to be whisked away by the nurses but to stay by my side. Swaddled in a white blanket, she was tucked into my hospital bed after Keith left to go home. Outside, fluorescent lights glared an

A box of donuts sits open on the table, and I lick pink glaze from my fingertips as I think about the family who raised me. From the...