The Money Cake

After 13 years of being a single mother, and raising her 3 sons, Cheryl had thought she found someone to share the rest of her life with. He seemed nice, and stable, and after a time of courtship, she married him. It didn’t take long for Cheryl to find out she had made a very…

If you met Carey today, you would think she is a typical mom living a middle-class life, but ten years ago she was just the opposite. Carey grew up in a pretty normal family until her parents divorced and her mother remarried when Carey was eighteen. Carey’s stepfather was abusive, he terrorized the family, and…

People never start out thinking “I’m going to be a drug addict”. We don’t look at newborn babies and squeal with joy, “Oh, she’s gonna be so homeless someday”. Babies are born with such potential, and such hope for bright and successful futures. It is the events and decisions of our lives that mold the…

I lost count of how many schools I attended growing up. I lost count of how many boyfriends my mother dated during my childhood. Even to this day, I remember only a few of their names. My family consisted of my older brother, myself, and my younger sister. My dad was in prison most of…