She looks in the mirror at her bronze spiral hair and with a face of disappointment, she struggles to gather it up into a bun hiding all of her curly mane away. It was just another normal day. Straightening...

Smells of pie and baking rolls in the air. In the kitchen, the aunts laugh with grandma and mom, while your uncles and grandpa reminisce about childhood. But then there's you and your siblings and your...

The crisp winter air loomed outside the windows of Rosy Mound Elementary School, but the third-graders inside were safe from the snow. “Everyone was wearing like a jacket and snow pants," sophomore...