As the favorite son of Mahrous Mustafa Bseiso — one of the largest landowners in southern Palestine — he was being groomed to inherit our family’s legacy. My grandfather was a prominent ...

that I learned about my family’s desperation to stay in touch during World War II. The document was a brief Red Cross message, dated February 15, 1943, sent by my great-great-grandfather, Pierre ...

I struggled with losing some casual friendships yet felt an increased affinity in others. Issues in my childhood family resulted in a lack of quality bonds between myself and my siblings; however, I ...

Fast forward a few years later, and I'm based in Wisconsin with my family of two adults, three pets and a toddler who loves food and says “I hungry” from the moment he wakes up to pretty much ...

Black April was more than a historical marker; it’s the root of my family’s story. My Vietnamese mother fled South Vietnam seven days before the communists took over. My maternal grandmother ...

DEAR ABBY: I am the only daughter in a family with four brothers. My family treats me like I don’t exist. My father constantly hurts my feelings intentionally. When I express how he (and the ...

While my family sleeps peacefully, I slip into my gym clothes and tiptoe out into the warm morning, strolling along the Caribbean seaside path to the fitness palapa for morning yoga. After class ...

On April 17, 1975, my family boarded a boat on the southern shores of Cambodia when news crackled through my mother’s shortwave radio that the Communist Khmer Rouge regime had taken power.

“I think it's definitely a lot,” Gia says of everything she and her family have been through. “It is my family, but at the end of the day, I am an individual. I obviously take care of ...

Not My Family: The Monique Smith Story is a Lifetime movie based on a true story. Monique Smith, played by Yaya DaCosta, is raised in a home with abuse, and she does not belong there. As a young ...

Monique Smith discovers that her abusive family wasn’t even her family at all in Lifetime’s newest movie “Not My Family: The Monique Smith Story” airing on Saturday, April 12. The ...

Lifetime’s newest movie, “Not My Family: The Monique Smith Story,” is set to premiere on Saturday, April 12 (4/12/2025) at 8 p.m. ET. A live stream of the movie can be found on Philo (free ...