As the Mississippi River rolls into sight, the tears begin to well in my eyes. "We're just going to visit like all the other times," I tell myself. "In a week we'll be driving right back over the...

Sophomore Ecaterina Prodan thought that war in her home of Moldova was only a rumor. This past summer, the 17 year old was getting ready to go out with her friends in her Eastern European country when...

Last year, junior Carolina Guerrero Sembergman and her friends were walking together on a crowded Colombian street when a teenage boy approached her. He pulled out his switchblade. Sembergman felt him...

The girls meet on the putting green for their regular practice. Sometimes they work individually to focus on fixing a bad stroke or weak grip. But the best practices are the group workouts because that's...

He was in the waiting room when I was born with an elaborate, hand drawn banner to welcome me into the world. Before I could read, he would help me sound out the letters written in my birthday cards. He...

Rubbing the sleep away from my eyes, my surroundings came into focus. I became completely overwhelmed by the beauty of the mountains and trees that lined the highway. I rubbed my wonder-filled eyes again...