2nd Story

In this week's story, teller Sahar Mustafah shares her search for support and shared space in weeks, months, and years living an ocean away from her friends and family in Palestine.

In this week's story, teller Nick Ward shares his experience clashing with police at a newsworthy protest and what it helped him learn about his need to act.

In this week's story, teller CP Chang reflects on one of his oldest friendships and the love and support they have for each other despite their significant personal differences.

In this week's story, teller Khanisha Foster recalls the highs and lows of sending her eldest off to college, and all the new beginnings that surrounded it.

In this week's story, teller Kim L. Hunt shares a memorable trip to South Africa and the cultural and linguistic revelations she experienced there.

In this week's story, teller LaTanya Lane unpacks the many ways we give and receive care and how we sometimes need to process care before accepting it.

In this week's story, teller RJ Silva shares the ups, downs, and surprising changes of his lifelong love for all things culinary.

In this week's story, teller Dr. S shares how one particular musical queen helped bridge both a literal and figurative gap between him and his sister.

In this week's story, teller Vince Pagán-Hill shares his experience helping a pair of close friends grow their family and the love he feels as an uncle to many.

In this week's story, our teller shares how he got past the all-too-common hurdle of supporting your child in a hobby you don't share, especially when it means being friends with the other parents.

In this week's story, we begin a celebration of parenthood with a story about the highs, lows, and loves of foster parenting.

In this week's story, teller PJ Gray recalls a rather harrowing day with a babysitter and the lesson on survival he learned at that young age.

In this week's story, teller Julie Ganey shares how she learned to take care of problems early and the difference it makes when past wrongs get forgotten.

In this week’s story, teller Geneva Norman recalls how, in the wake of an unexpected pregnancy, her community banded together to blaze a path forward.

In this week's story, teller S. Ferdowsi shares the leadup to and fallout from her miscarriage, bringing an honest look at all she experienced in those days.

In this week's story, teller Reshmi Hazra Rustebakke shares how counseling has helped turn her sixteen-year marriage into one long honeymoon period.

In this week's story, teller Earliana McLaurin recalls some of her shaky moments in dating and the friendship that helped ground her.

In this week's story, teller Liz Blondel shares a moment when, in the wake of a tragic loss, she had to learn how to support family through the haze of a language and culture barrier.

In this week's story, teller Tiffany Moten reflects on friends lost and found as well as the way our friend groups grow and change just as we do ourselves.

In this week's story, teller Coya Paz reflects on the way her her uniquely global youth has impacted her identity, her values, and her family.

In this week's story, teller CP Chang shares the many varying emotions and memories of weeks that led up to the loss of father and what we see when those around us grieve.

In this week's story, teller Kirsten Baity recalls the ups and downs of their relationship with their sister and the way they grew together through shared yet separate work.

In this week's story, teller Jess Kadish shares the before, during, and ongoing process of healing from a broken hip, reflecting on the help she learned to ask for.

In this week's story, teller Jenan Mohajir shares the path she followed to finding her name and the pride she's learned to have in representing herself and her legacy.

In this week's story, teller Kimberly Acosta reflects on the depth of her Mexican-American identity and the way it's evolved throughout her life, both as she's gotten older and as the world around her changes.