Voices

A few weeks before starting college, I received an email notifying me of an outstanding balance on my student account. When I logged in, I saw that I owed about…

I guess everything starts with a game for me. When I was about 5 years old, I would often narrate the adventures of my Playmobil figures and describe their lives to…

  I dropped my inflatable tiger and stepped onto the balance beam. “This is annoying,” I thought to myself as I walked across the beam during my first gymnastics class…

Before I left my grandmother’s house in Burton, Michigan, to make the 10-minute drive to The Flint Journal, I’d grab a glass of water without worrying about it. I didn’t…

Eighty seconds of my four years in high school will stick with me forever.  On Dec. 13, 2013, one of my classmates at Arapahoe High School entered our school with…

The first time I stepped onto a sports field, I had just turned 6 years old. My parents always knew I wanted to play sports, so they signed up me…

I sat on a bench alone reading my book, “Organized To Do Jehovah’s Will.” I remember I was in third grade, studying the core beliefs of the Jehovah’s Witnesses faith…

VOICES: As a child, I remember my family constantly trying to beat time. During a typical weekend when I was a kid, my parents would rush us from my own soccer game to my older brother’s games to my twin little sisters’ games to church or Girl Scouts or other ...