Inspiring Stories

This scene looks happy, even festive. The lights are bright, and a little girl’s toys are strewn across the floor. But something’s off. Sitting on the floor beside her is a man looking deadpan at the camera. He looks quizzical, even suspicious at the person behind the camera. As you’ll see, he has good reason

*Featured image contains photo by olia danilevich and Oleksandr P Anyone who has ever experienced food insecurity knows that it never really leaves you. Those hunger pangs, even when they’re long gone, linger, a phantom reminder of darker days. When Haley was in third grade, she knew those pangs well. Her family was struggling and

Anja Lovén was 30 years old when she saw a British documentary about a child witch. She sat there in shock — and then in rage — as the television program detailed how these “witch children” are tortured, abandoned, even buried alive.  Many countries in Africa, and around the world, have a long history of

When David César swore to love his wife “in sickness and in health, ’til death do us part” on their wedding day, he never imagined how severely those vows would be tested. Not long after they were married, his wife suffered a catastrophic medical crisis, leaving her trapped in a vegetative state. David never left

Cameron Diaz was known as Hollywood’s golden girl, but after her breakup with Justin Timberlake and a life-changing event, she took a different path and disappeared from the public eye. Some critics speculated her disappearance had to do with her “shelf life” and getting pushed out of Hollywood for younger, fresher actresses, like Jennifer Lawrence.

*Featured image contains photo by Olha Ruskykh and Greta Hoffman We usually associate Reddit forums with sanctums of drama and sadness, a big part of it being regret. (The topic remains one of my toughest pieces to write.) Well, prepare to seriously rethink that. The Reddit Post That Ignites a Wild Ride Photo by Brett

It’s a secret she’d kept bottled up forever. Yet, when it finally comes out, nothing can stop the chain reaction it sets off. A Rough Path Photo by Ketut Subiyanto If you’re a child raised in these circumstances, you’re in for a rough ride. Chances are, food is scarce, and proper health care even more

*Featured image contains photo by Norbert Kundrak and cottonbro studio. He carried a dark secret, with five words that haunted him daily. “This sentence haunts me to this day and is my biggest secret. Since I was 11, I would repeat it to myself every day whenever I made a mistake, or did something stupid,”

The first time Elaine Hall and Roland Passaro danced together they were teenagers. It was the 1950s and they jitterbugged to the song Kansas City. Seventy years later, they took to the dance floor again. Same song, same dance. Only this time, as newlyweds. Once each other’s middle and high school crushes, they reconnected at

It’s been over a year since Ashley McGuire’s husband, Charles Withers, went MIA — allegedly up and ghosting her and their two children. But thanks to the power of the internet, the Sherlocks of social media found him in less than a day, despite him moving states, and changing his phone number and name. There