They Say Cats Have Nine Lives No one noticed he was gone until the next day, when I got home from my morning kindergarten class and he wasn’t sitting in the window waiting for me to get off the bus. “Where’s Alfred?” My mother asked. We called for him, searched the house, even checked the yard…

Ambition ain’t everything. — “So, what’s your five-year plan?” This question was a common ice-breaker on my college campus. It was a given that, after spending four (or more) years getting your degree, you intended to hit the ground running, with the aim of becoming a millionaire in record time. If you didn’t already…

Here’s the story of mine I remember perfectly the moment I learned that I was not safe in my body. After my parents divorced, my mother, sister, and I moved across the country to live with my grandparents while mom got back on her feet. I was in heaven. Mom…