My faith is something that has always given me hope in difficult situations. This is not faith, the way the world likes to throw the term around, but faith in the only true living God. So while it was horrible seeing my mother go through all the things she did, I had t...

I picked up the phone one day, while I was at my friend’s apartment, and it happened to be my dad on the other end of the call. “Mommy is coming to America in a few weeks,” he said to me. “Why? Is everything okay?”

One day she asked me with such a worried look on her face—“is it really worth it to wait to have sex after marriage?” I gasped for some air, already calculating what answer I was going to give her when she interjected my thoughts by saying; “I look at my mother’s marri...

“Okay madam, your results are in,” the doctor said to my mother after a series of tests. “We are sorry you have stage 4 breast cancer.” The revelation from the doctor hit my mom like a ton of bricks. “How could this be? Cancer? Are you sure, doctor?” “Yes I am, the do...

Before settling for school in Louisiana, I wanted to school in the U.K, but all the schools I applied to rejected me. So I turned my focus to the U.S and Canada and got admitted to two schools each in both countries. My dad then advised me to go with Lafayette, because...

If you are a hopeful romantic like me, then you look forward to the day when someone will swoop in and sweep you off your feet. You know like how it happens in the movies, or books, or in stories that seem too good to be true! Boy meets girl and immediately falls for h...

I was scrolling down Instagram this morning and came across a picture of this beautiful woman, celebrating her 35th birthday. What even made her more radiant was her baby bump she put on display. This gorgeous woman is pregnant for the second time, in less than two yea...

We were airborne from Frankfurt to Seoul for about 12 hours, but it felt we were flying for days. I kept sleeping and waking up to darkness and brightness out of my window. I had lost all track of time. By the time we landed in Seoul, we found ourselves in a whole new...

I ran into my father’s room early in the morning, I could barely get any sleep the night before, as the phone kept ringing non-stop. “Daddy where are you off to?” I asked, he was acting a bit confused, making his bed, putting on his shirt, and going back to make an alr...

People have being intermarrying since when marriage was created — people from different backgrounds, cultures, belief systems, and so on. There are couples who don’t share the same fundamental beliefs when it comes to God and spirituality, but somehow manage to make th...