400 strangers show up to girl's birthday party after classmates cancel

Photo by Keighla Anderson After hearing about a member of my family having a birthday party and none of her classmates showing up, I was...

Age nineteen isn't such an easy age

Sawyer Sweeten, 19, lost his life to suicide on April 23. Age 18 through 20 – those were a pretty tough couple years for me. I had rec...

How do you know who to trust?

When I was in college, a young man walking around campus approached me and told me that he was selling magazine subscriptions as a way to...

Project Semicolon teaches that your story is NOT over

"A semicolon represents a sentence the author could have ended, but chose not to. The sentence is your life and the author is you.&qu...