I meant to tell her how greatly she influenced my life with her steely, yet soft-spoken voice, but I got busy. Thirty-six years went by....

Baba Sher – he was our life. Living in a shared family home in the isolated village of Malakwal, Pakistan, the male eldership possessed...

My name is Christopher Evelyn May Barnhill and this is my story. My name is Christopher. No my mother did not want a boy and no I wasn't...

A tradition that I am able to continue this year even with the coronavirus pandemic, is going out for Korean barbecue on Christmas Eve in...

For as long as I can remember, my father’s side of the family has conducted a secret Santa gift exchange. In years past, a majority of us...

At 14 years old, I was considered to be too old for trick or treating. Me, and a friend, who was also 14, decided to ask my parents if we...

As teenagers, we were beyond trick or treating. We decided to get a group of friends together to go see a movie instead. We live in small...

I remember my seventh Halloween, it was the year I met my best friends. The year I learn a few things, one does not eat a whole sack of...

My favorite memory as a kid is my dad getting off work after a late shift but still being so excited to take us to the mall trick or...

I was driving beyond the speed limit on that dreary night, aloof and haughty. So what if it was Halloween night, I didn’t drop a care....

In 2015, I left my unoriginal hometown in Pennsylvania to study writing at an art school in Brooklyn, New York.. At orientation, students...

Despite knowing my mother was sick and would not live forever, I allowed myself to believe she'd make it until graduation, as she'd...

One of the most rewarding things I ever did was also something that I wasn't prepared for. My church use to do a thing called trek. Trek...

In an instant, I identified with the melodramatic Renaissance paintings for which I had always held a flippant attitude. Raphael’s "The...

“It’s the boats!” On a walk with my mother along the Oceanside pier just a few days ago, we saw “the boats.” I knew exactly which boats...

Real Friends. When I was 7 years old my mom introduced me to a girl who I didn’t know would be my best friend for the next 8 years. She...

My mother’s parents (Granny and Pa) came to America in the noble pursuit of better, honest, work and the American Dream. For years before...

During my sophomore year of high school, I felt like I had lost everything: my childhood home, my old high school, my church, my friends....

I constantly read in elementary school. I wouldn’t let anything, such as an earthquake drill, stop me. I would grab my book from the desk...

We celebrated Dad's 95th birthday this week. If you were to ask him how he's doing , he will tell you that he's got the best life under...