Author: Avtor

Nadia Lauricelli’s story is one of courage, perseverance and the power of focusing on possibilities

My neighbour thought my 74-year-old mother was just a sweet woman with a lot of free time. But when she

When my husband passed away after 27 years together, I believed grief was the deepest pain I would ever know.

The air is thick with the smell of cheap hairspray and sun-baked asphalt — a sticky Californian aroma

I thought my days of big life changes were over by the time I hit my late 50s. Then a newborn was abandoned

In the harsh, icy silence of suburban Detroit, 1974 felt like a long, grey exhalation. In the corridors

When I ducked into a café to escape the rain and feed my baby granddaughter, hostile strangers made it

His eldest son died at the age of 16, and his wife was taken by cancer! John and Kelly were considered

When my stepmom destroyed my late mother’s precious crystal set just weeks before my wedding, I