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The Christmas Eve that was the beginning of the end of my father’s life began with our family’s typical organized chaos of the holidays. My parents were getting ready to drop off some cards to their ...

When I was in college, I received a strange phone call. The woman was crying so hard that her words came out in gasps. The woman was having a meltdown because the man she’d been having an affair with ...

Even though I was 21 months older than my brother, Charles McPhee, I looked up to him. I loved stepping into his world. On his bedroom wall growing up, he had plastered the iconic Apollo 8 “Earthrise” ...

Early entrepreneurial experiences build resilience and foster personal growth. Developing ordinary skills into extraordinary ones sets leaders apart from others. Embrace failure as a learning ...

Past adversities equipped her with resilience, determination, and courage, preparing her for the cancer battle. Family support and selective sharing of her diagnosis were crucial for conserving energy ...

Born in 1939 during what would be the last years of the Japanese colonial occupation of Korea, my father, Choung Tai Chee, also called Charles or Chuck or Charlie, came to the United States in 1960.

When I was growing up in the 1990s, getting married wasn’t an “if” in the Midwest, but a “when”—and “divorce” was practically a curse word. Despite the statistics even then, I felt wildly entitled to ...