The Weight of Inheritance: How Family Stories Shape Who We Become
The Stories We’re Born Into Long before we tell our own stories, we’re living inside someone else’s. We’re born into family narratives — shaped by the choices, sacrifices, failures, and silences of those who came before us. Some of these stories are passed down through words, in the form of bedtime tales, kitchen-table recollections, or […]
The Distance Between Us: Writing Through the Fracture of the American Dream
What We Were Promised I grew up in the shadows of a promise. It was never stated outright, but it was everywhere — in commercials, in classrooms, in the way my parents talked about the future. Work hard. Follow the rules. Be grateful. And in return, you’d make it. That was the agreement. That was […]