Purpose

I was sitting on my back porch with my neighbor, Ben. We try and get together whenever we have some down time (which is very rare). He works for the post office and has a wife, two children and [...]

“The thought of suicide was entertained by nearly everyone.” As a new prisoner in Auschwitz, Viktor Frankl was often made to carry full latrine buckets across the camp to dispose of them. The [...]

He was likely twice my age. He moved so slowly, his steps looked painful and sluggish against the sidewalk. He stopped just under the overpass and lay his dirty backpack against the cold stones [...]

His grin widened, and I could see the fire in his eyes. “Let’s go,” he said. We hopped into his car and zipped to the ATM. He threw the money at me and said, “I’m in. Let’s make this happen.” Our [...]

I woke up to see my obese cat curled into the side of my face. I chuckled and gave her a few tummy rubs before jumping out of my bed and wiggling my toes in the apartment carpet before stretching [...]

Jonathan Lamper shares about working in a job where he was alone and isolated from sun-up to sundown, the toll it took, and how he felt he had no direction in life until a day where he moved in [...]

By now Jankiel Wiernik had somewhat gotten used to the smell of burning flesh. What he couldn’t get over was arms and legs falling off as he dragged the bodies or when a pregnant woman’s belly [...]

I found myself in a scene straight out of the cliché teenager flick Mean Girls. In the movie, it was a Halloween house party: all the girls were dressed minimally in what were supposed to be [...]

[pullquote]Often, people work long hard hours at jobs they hate to earn money to buy things they don’t need, to impress people they don’t like. -Nigel Marsh[/pullquote]   There’s [...]

When Garrett Russell found out he would never play sports again he tried to end his life, but after a trip to help an orphanage in Haiti his life completely changed. [spb_video [...]