Tag: Personal

Maggie Slepian writes about eating disorders and their lasting impact beyond the initial struggle for recovery. Her personal reflections reveal how the shadows of anorexia and bulimia continue to affect her relationship with food and body image years later.

In a nostalgic dive into the origins of cup stacking, Kit Fox tells the story of how his father turned a shipment of seemingly useless plastic cups into something that would find its way into gym classes across America.

Through the lens of her father's battle with mesothelioma, a disease caused by exposure to asbestos, Charlotte Bailey explores the devastating impact of asbestos. She challenges the perception that asbestos is a relic of the past, but a thread that many still face today, decades ...

Andrea Pitzer reflects on a childhood shaped by their families devastating experience with Amway. Amway's promises of wealth and opportunity consumed her mother's life for decades, leading to financial ruin and strained family relationships.

In this deeply personal essay, Tessa Fontaine contrasts her mothers health crisis, a personal disaster lived in isolation, with a devastating tornado in Tuscaloosa, where she lives, a communal disaster with a shared suffering in its aftermath. She ultimately returns to the neighb...

Amanda Knox shares her journey through an 18-year legal battle in Italy that began with a wrongful murder conviction.

This is how I know an Asian South exists: I miss it