This poem is sort of about Olivia B.Although she never actually gone to a bridge to jump off it, she finds comfort in writing about how she feels. It was hard to show people how she felt so she chose to express herself through art, music and writing. She hopes you enjoy her poem as much as she did writing it. She...

A Jamie Rudman StoryA new perspective on a journey across North East, East and Southern Africa DEPARTING FOR ADDIS ABABAOn the 19th February I'll be flying to Addis Ababa, the capital of Ethiopia, with little more than a day rucksack, a cotton sleeping bag liner, some rolled up shirts, factor 50 suncream and a phone...

It doesn't seem quite fitting to simply describe  Lydia Kemunto Cutler as multitalented. She's one for the ages with a résumé that will have you shaking your head and wondering how one person does so much- and so well. She's a fashion designer, who has ambitions of delving into politics someday.All of this is part...

“I’ve been incarcerated for almost all my life. I used to be an alcoholic and an addict, but now I’ve been sober for 2 years and 11 months—one day at a time. I don’t drink no more, I have a job, and I try to go to church.”“How did you change?”“I got tired of living like that.” “I want to be a comedian. A lot of people...

The chinning bar is on the door,The boxes are on the garage floor,Memories linger everywhere,Of happy times we used to share.Dear people you'll never know,Of the love I couldn't show,It wasn't coz love wasn't there,I just didn't know how to share.The years went by too fast for me,I'm just beginning now to see,That in...

By Gerrishon SirereThe jungle night was still and black. Only the slightest breeze rippled through the tall grass of the countryside. Then, suddenly, at a quarter past twelve, not ten miles west of Ndola Airport, a big airliner fell from the skies and crashed in a blazing wreckage.This was the Albertina. The treetops...

While headaches and mood swings are often indicators of stress, turns out the way we speak is, too.From mood swings to being unable to fall asleep at night -- some things are clear symptoms of stress. However, it turns out stress manifests in many forms, like in the way we speak.A recent study published by the Proceedings...

“I didn’t think you could jail someone just because they were poor.” — Jasmine StillA Colorado Springs woman who has a newborn child was jailed for 27 days because she couldn’t pay an unrelated pretrial court processing fee of $55 despite a judge’s order that she be released on her own recognizance, a civil lawsuit...