“Every single day, she would give me a hug, tell me how special I was, and tell me to have a great day. I thought I was treated special. I was wrong. There were hundreds of comments that told the same story.”
‘Mary Ann was the lunch lady in the elementary cafeteria for over 40 years. I thought I was treated special. Turns out, I wasn’t special at all.’: Man pays tribute to school lunch lady, ‘She was rare in this world’
‘Would you want to adopt him?’ She was taken from the only woman she knew and placed with a stranger.’: Couple describes adoption, foster journey, ‘Our lives have never been the same’
“We cried and prayed. We said yes right away. Then we got a call to see if we wanted to foster-to-adopt a 1-year-old boy and a 3-year-old girl.”
Why My Cop Father Has An Unfair Advantage
“He gets to come home every night and take it all off. He can walk away. Having that choice is a PRIVILEGE.”
‘I read a viral post about romance that read, ‘Marry the person who…’ The thing is, we marry the person who ticks our boxes.’: Woman declares ‘love isn’t a romance movie, it’s HARD work’
“People really love to paint the dream it isn’t. It’s always a simple message that declares lifelong love. Marry the person who will see you fart and pick your nose, who won’t care if you’ve gained 50 pounds.”
‘How will we tell her sister?’ I held her limp body, kissing her and praying she’d breathe again.’: Baby diagnosed with Lissencephaly, ‘She is a true miracle’
“I said, ‘Something is wrong, I just know it.’ Her body would twitch, eyes blinking faster than you could ever imagine. Her lips making a loud smacking noise. It scared me to death. The questions started to flood my mind…how long did we have with her?”
‘I can find my foundation skin tone because of white privilege. I can exist without fear of getting shot. That is white privilege’: Woman says ‘none of my struggles are because of the color of my skin’
“I haven’t lost a job or called the n-word because of the color of my skin. I haven’t had to work harder and prove myself as a person AND because of the color of my skin. I’ve known what it’s like to lose a job, be broke, and have zero in my bank account. But I still have white privilege.”
‘We found an old judge to marry us for $10. ‘Are you sure?’ I was mildly offended. Maurita responded, ‘Yeah, he’ll do!’: Man details spontanous wedding thanks to StoryWorth
“The road was dirty and bumpy, with no end in sight. After several miles of traveling this little road, my new bride had had enough. ‘Get me the hell out of here!’ she said.”
‘He sat me down, fired me. ‘You took too long to get back to the store.’ I said, ‘Fine, I don’t like the job anyway.’: Man talks first job thanks to StoryWorth
“My father said, ‘Come on, Harry, cut the you-know-what.’ He pleaded for my boss to take me back.”
‘I sat on my couch, white privileged, inside of my comfortable home, and realized the world hasn’t gone mad. The world IS mad.’: Woman explains her anxiety of being quiet, ‘I worry my silence offends you’
“I worry that my silence offends you. I don’t get it like others get it. And, for that reason, I stay quiet.”
‘You recently ‘re-homed’ your adopted son after discovering he had autism and needs ‘you weren’t told about.’: Mom pens open letter to Myka Stauffer, ‘You tapped out right before the big pay day’
“I like pretty pictures too. This feels familiar to me. I know this because I’ve experienced both firsthand. I am not here to cast stones, nor empathize. I just want to talk, mother to mother.”