The parks and community centers in our area had all sorts of organized sports, and I became pretty skilled at many of them through the years. I was good at soccer and acc...read full story
Although I’d made a few friends during the first few months of high school, I still had yet to make any who were more or less my same age.Then one day that changed....read full story
They said I didn’t cry when I began to move what was left of my body. I suppose I slipped in and out of consciousness in my sanitary-yet-toxic new world of glassed-...read full story
After my miraculous feat of surviving the first 72 hours after the explosion, I showed little signs of improvement for the next six weeks. Each day my mother would sit at...read full story
“Those who danced were thought to be quite insane by those who could not hear the music.”— Angela Monet One of my favorite stories about Louis...read full story
This week you’ll have the opportunity to get a copy of Dan Caro’s life story—The Gift of Fire: How I Made Adversity Work for Me. Dan is a professi...read full story
My friend Randy owned a music store, and he asked if I’d like to get paid to teach some of his customers to play the drums. I figured, What better job could there b...read full story
I was seven years old in the fall of 1986, and that’s when my parents heard rumors circulating around their church about miraculous cures happening in Europe. The p...read full story
