Please welcome Ncoan Lewis. I'm 18 years old living at the Ronald McDonald House and across the street, my newborn daughter is fighting for her life in the NICU. She's already had surgeries, tubes, machines, beeping monitors.I'm scared. I'm alone. And I'm exhausted.Every morning, I crossed that street with my heart in my throat, praying that she was still here. I stayed by her side for weeks, then months. Eventually, she got her own room.Even after I finally got an apartment, I was still at that hospital ev ...

Nagasaki is reborn in technicolor in a new adaptation of Kazuo Ishiguro’s ‘A Pale View of Hills’ — a meditation on trauma, memory and national reckoning. https://t.co/6JPbuO415L ...

Nagasaki is reborn in technicolor in a new adaptation of Kazuo Ishiguro’s ‘A Pale View of Hills’ — a meditation on trauma, memory and national reckoning. https://t.co/szU9fe8OIq ...

Nagasaki is reborn in technicolor in a new adaptation of Kazuo Ishiguro’s ‘A Pale View of Hills’ — a meditation on trauma, memory and national reckoning. https://t.co/2KKJyH9Ms4 ...

barely 18, my Pontiac 1000 was packed to the brim and I had left the big city lights of Dallas and Arlington in my rearview mirror. I was going to take on the world. I well, I thought I had big hopes and dreams.I was headed to Denton, Texas to attend Texas Women's University to get my PT degree. and I was going to my next step was going to work for the Dallas Cowboys in their athletic department and then I was going to own my own horse ranch. So I was ready to take on the world or so I thought.Maybe it was ...

Throughout my childhood, I had always dreamt of the day that I'll finally be called a teenager. But only eight days after I turned 13, this girl standing here was kidnapped. I know that their prescription for physical pain, but every day after that incident, I prayed for a prescription that would take away the pain that I felt.And because I wasn't able to speak up, I was an introvert. I began writing. I wrote so much that my hands began to hurt.But I didn't stop. Unknown to me, I was slowly giving myself he ...

THE BLAME GAME OF TRAUMA OLYMPICS.I can blame my boomer dad who died for ALL my problems and some of that is valid.But instead I’m glad he is my dad and for all the struggles his death brought.It made me who I am today.I choose to take what the struggle taught me and apply it to other struggles.Life is HARDER today, no one is denying that.The economy sucks and there’s many things outside of our control. But there is only one way to deal and that’s to deal with the hand that was dealt and do the best we can. ...

Desde que tengo memoria, los pies no se me están quietos. Bailar para mí siempre ha sido casi como una necesidad. Por eso desde que estaba muy chiquita yo entré a clases de ballet y un tiempo después quise algo diferente, así que también entré a clases de jazz y me encantaban mis clases de jazz.El maestro Eric era un maestro buena onda, algo joven, por lo tanto relajado, para nada gritón ni regañón como la maestra de Valet, ¿no. Eric era muy divertido. Eric nos dejaba jugar, nos dejaba bailar como quisiéram ...

Deadbolts, padlocks, mortise locks, cam locks, combination locks to name a few. Why so many locks. Well, I purchased and fashioned them in response to trauma.Yes. Trauma. When I was 15 years old, my little brother died.He died by suicide. He was 12. And I was never the same.Since losing my little brother, it's as if I've had this very peculiar relationship with suicidality. It's like a strange push and pull, as if it's pulling on me constantly. But I've learned how to resist sometimes with more strength tha ...

What are you passionate about. What are you warm and fuzzy about. And what breaks your heart.Because you know, we heard about some great stories of overcoming adversity. And in a minute, I'm going to tell mine. But everybody starts and in life and they end up doing something.you know, what has your life brought you to where you are now. Like, you heard her story. You're doing what you're doing because of what you've been through.We all have that story. And I'm going to tell mine um here in a minute, you kno ...