family

Family unites us; but it's also a challenge. All about fighting to stay together, and loving every moment of it.

Fix The System We All Regret Creating
I hate insurance. We pay a monthly premium, to hopefully receive a reduced cost of "covered" claims/losses that may or may not occur.
By Peter Thwing - Host of the FST Podcast3 years ago in Humans
The identical twins who discovered their secret sibling
athy Seckler was 16 years old when she made an unexpected discovery that changed her life completely – she had an identical twin sister. It was 4 September 1977 – she recalls with utmost clarity, her voice wobbling only slightly – when a friend told her that she resembled a girl she knew called Lori Pritzl, and asked if she was adopted. Seckler's birthday was the same date as Pritzl's and the two girls looked exactly the same. Seckler had known she was adopted since a young age, enjoying a happy and loved upbringing, but she then learned that Pritzl had also been adopted from the same agency as her.
By Gu Wei Di Qi3 years ago in Humans
The health risks of maturing early
I remember the first time a stranger openly gawked at my bare legs. It was the summer before I turned 11; I was at a small convenience store near our home. The man stood behind my mother and me at the checkout line, staring me up and down. He looked the same age as my father. But it wasn’t friendliness I detected in his eyes.
By Gu Wei Di Qi3 years ago in Humans
The world’s most common contraception has a dark past
Raji Kevat of Ganiyari, Chhattisgarh, has mixed feelings about tubal ligation, the most common form of female sterilisation. It is an operation that she has undergone herself. After she received the procedure in 2014 at one of the Indian government’s now-infamous sterilisation ‘camps’, she advised her sister-in-law, Shiv Kumari Kevat, to do the same. Shiv Kumari and 82 other women lined up in an otherwise abandoned hospital in the city of Bilaspur in November 2014. The surgeon cut the women with a single instrument, allegedly without changing his gloves between each surgery. The women were then laid on the hospital floor to recover. That night, Shiv Kumari began vomiting and experiencing terrible pain in her gut. She was dead within days. While the government’s official explanation was that the deaths happened due to compromised drugs, a post-mortem report showed that Shiv Kumari had passed away due to septicaemia – likely from surgical infection. She was one of 13 women who died from the camp.
By Lonetoft3 years ago in Humans
Men at 58
It was not that long ago that I was an eighteen-year-old boy, with a sculpted face only a craftsman could have brought to life. I sported a trunk as flat as the board on which my elementary school teacher, Coby, wasted thousands of chalks teaching the rest of the children and me, including a beauty named Odaaku. When she walked she swayed like the young stem of a cassava plant.
By Fester Hammer3 years ago in Humans
Polly's pies
We used to sit in Polly’s Pies, in a booth under white fluorescent lights and scan the menu. You’d always order peach cobbler, even after looking again. You did every time.
By Steph K3 years ago in Humans
Thinking of you
Time has passed for a long time, and suddenly hearing the news about that person, the heart will still be touched by it. But the past has long been sealed, the past is the past, can not change, can not start over, can only bury all the emotions deep into the heart.
By Opperferman3 years ago in Humans
Four Reflections
Below is an excerpt from a creative nonfiction story. The story is told in four sections and scenes, each from a different part of my life.
By Jennifer M. Ward3 years ago in Humans
Relationship Maintenance
There is no such thing as a perfect relationship for there will always come a time when things change, fights and conflicts take place, and people end up parting ways.
By SATPOWER3 years ago in Humans
Day 2
I was somewhat surprised to feel a small nudge within me this evening, to type, and to document my thoughts of the day - even after all the events of the day, even on this achingly slow computer of my Mums.
By Azana Mackali-Cerasi3 years ago in Humans
Is it better to have a daughter or a boy in the next 20 years?
Many young people feel that girls are more delicate in life, but also more warm-heated, compared to the son who married his daughter-in-law and forgot his mother, the daughter is a sweet little cotton coat, in the marriage can also bring back a son, the girl married pressure will also be small, so many contemporary young people want a daughter. But in fact, the future of raising a daughter is more worrying, mainly for the following reasons.
By Gene Rishi3 years ago in Humans
I didn't realize that the person on my pillow had been counting on me all along
That night, Peng Huiyan and Sun Weidong were lying in bed together, each playing with their phones. Suddenly, Peng Huiyan let out a fart. On a whim, she wanted to mess with Sun Weidong, so she deliberately put the quilt over his head. This would have been their two favorite things to do, although it was a bad joke, but also a small love affair. Each time both sides pretend to dislike some, and then again putty together, but this time, Sun Weidong is very excited. He violently lifted the quilt and jumped to the floor, shouting furiously, "Peng Huiyan! You're so disgusting!" Peng Huiyan instantly saw contempt and disgust in his eyes, and her heart thudded, sensing a hint of something wrong. Before she could react, Sun Weidong said he was so disgusted that he didn't want to sleep in this space, which had been polluted by Peng Huiyan's farts. He then picked up a pillow and slammed the door, leaving a dumbfounded Peng Huiyan. Peng Huiyan couldn't figure out how Sun Weidong reacted so much. She suddenly remembered that during this period, Sun Weidong had been coming home later and later, and was also very cold to her, going to the bathroom and taking her phone in. At that time, Peng Huiyan said he, but Sun Weidong are recently busy with the company's business, he is busy socializing and maintaining customer relations. At that time, Peng Huiyan believed it, but now carefully pondered some, it is not normal. Peng Huiyan had a bad suspicion in her heart at once. But she knew that without evidence, according to Sun Weidong's character, he would never admit it. So, she took advantage of Sun Weidong's sleep to secretly go through his phone. The company's main business is to provide a wide range of products and services to its customers.
By Lonetoft3 years ago in Humans