this is a true story every girl/woman dreams of finding true love, getting married and having a family. No woman ever dream of being hurt or used by a guy that claims to love her. But should that happen how does one deal with such pain? How do you pick up the pieces and move [...]

It was breakfast time and I was sticking to the principle of trying to experience the local culture as realistically as possible. Padang is one of Sumatra’s largest cities and it is the jump-off point for most surfers who travel to that magical chain of islands nearby called the Mentawais. I was killing time in [...]

  A Different World Ever since I  was young, one of my dreams were to one day travel back to Vietnam, and visit my grandparents, who I’ve never met before. That day had come true when my sister, mom and I took off on a 24hr flight to Vietnam.  When we arrived I was so happy [...]

It was only ten in the morning and the salon was already filled with the scent of hair styling products and sounds of hair dryer. Lindy sat on the swirling chair as she waited for her turn. Although the hairdresser was quite a chatterbox with her high pitch voice that would hit and bounced every [...]

The bus driver slammed on brakes and we came to a screeching halt by the side of the road, setting off a cacophony of squawking chickens, bleating goats and swearing passengers. I craned my neck to see what had happened, but the only reason for stopping was that our driver had spotted more people who [...]

10:36 pm, June 19, 2012 San Francisco, California Resident’s of Debra and Medford Crenshaw Blue and white flashes of light blinded the sleeping neighborhood of Springsleak. EMS rush faintly to their automobile dragging a stretcher from each corner. The pale white sheets were drenched in blood of the now deceased. Investigators and California detectives questioned [...]

  At thirteen, Bibing looked every inch a young lady but was pretty much a child in many ways. She wanted to play but could not as she had to help augment the family’s meager income by selling merchandise around the town. She was the third of the 4 daughters one of which was a [...]

This happen to my Daughter (Shy Brown) and Grand Daughter (Madi Bryant). In Shy’s own Words. This is a true story about a dog that was more than just a pet. She was a friend, a protector, and a heroine. A dog that, just within the first minutes of meeting her, I knew would be [...]

Wait! urges my inner tropical voice – just a few beats of 3/4 time, to stare into the drawer housing my underwear. Another beat, pretty sure the drawer is inhabited only by poorly-folded Boxers and a mash-up of socks, I grab a pair of shorts, give them a shake then close the drawer. I call [...]

“Time for school Billy”, my father shouted, I was asleep in the other room but the walls were so paper thin you could have heard a pin drop, “you too” cried out my mother. It was 1942; we lived in a 2 bedroomed cottage in the village of Glendora, a population of 16 hardy souls, [...]