“So here’s the deal. Our service tonight sucked. Took 20 minutes to get water, 40 minutes for an appetizer and over an hour for our entree. People all around us were making fun of the restaurant & how bad the service was. Yeah, it was pretty terrible. But, it was very obvious that the issue […]

“This little guy was having a rough morning and laid out on the floor. I saw his mom step back and say that lately, this has been how he expresses himself. So, I got down on his level and talked to him. He started to cry, so I wiped his tears and told him everything […]

This version emphasizes the relationship between the officer and Priscilla, highlighting their bond despite the difficult circumstances. “Meet Priscilla, a well-known person in our community. She sits in an old chair under a bridge every day. Her legs are very swollen, and she has a mental illness. She might curse at you, but if you […]

A few weeks before my nineteenth birthday, I was sitting next to my mom when she pointed out that my left eye wasn’t lining up with my right one, which made it look like I had a lazy eye. The next day, after we all laughed about it (because it did look kind of funny), […]

In 1929, when Vivian Bales set off from Albany, Georgia, on her 45-cubic-inch Harley-Davidson, most people couldn’t believe their eyes: a 20-year-old woman embarking alone on a 5,000-mile cross-country motorcycle journey. She rode for 78 days through rain, dust, unpaved roads, and gas stations that were few and far between. But Vivian didn’t just endure […]

“I’ve been in bed for 6 days. If I wasn’t working, I was here—sometimes in the dark, sometimes with the TV on, sometimes crying, sometimes staring at nothing. Hours blurred into days. Was it 8 p.m.? 3 a.m.? Did I nap or just go blank? I couldn’t tell anymore. And yet every morning, I still […]