Our lives are filled with pinnacles. It starts with high school graduation, then moves maybe to college degrees, then to a job, and...

Bear with me, as this is not like anything I've written before. I woke up needing to write this. Hopefully it'll help someone. One of the...

When I was in my late teens, I fell into a very bad relationship with someone who had very low self-esteem. As a result, the only way...

There is an old adage that says, "Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me." But that's wrong. Words are a...

When I was in the fifth grade, I wanted to be a poet. I wrote poems but kept them to myself. I was a quiet, introverted boy going through...