Personal Stories Porridge: An Emigrant Story
"It's the fear that keeps you up at night, anxiety that eats away all of the accomplishments, because if you get sent back, everything evaporates."
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Personal Stories 
Family Why the Trend of Adoption Crowdfunding Makes Me So Uncomfortable
On adoption crowdfunding campaigns, who they benefit, and what else is at stake.
Family Exposure: On Raising a Bilingual Child
Hope Mills on attempting to raise a bilingual child when she only speaks one of the languages.
Family On My Mother and the Person I Could Have Become
"The fake me created by my mother has come to mirror the differences between her and me -- two sides of a coin that can't be reconciled."
Family My Revenge: The Holocaust and Our Family Legacy
Sophie Unterman on her Grandma Eva, and what family legacy means to her grandmother as a survivor of the Holocaust.
Family Notes on a New Age Childhood
"Sometimes . . . I am filled like a lantern with faith in a world that is by definition sacred, whatever its failures. And yet I do not believe."
Family Dare To Be Different
"I grew up wishing to be the same. I grew up wishing I could dare to be different."
Family Widowmaker: My Father’s Dance with Death
Kayla Smith on her beloved dad's obsession with trucks, motorcycles, pushing the limits, and his family.
Family Swimming Lessons for Black Girls
Christienna Fryar on her years as a competitive swimmer and the need for Black people to feel safe and welcomed at public swimming pools.
Family Subsistence
Christine Simek on memories of preparing and preserving food with her grandparents.
Family Oddly Specific Fears For My Children
Jessica Roake has some very specific fears about the choices her children may make in their lives.
Family Everything My Grandmother Said To Me Last Night As We Watched American Ninja Warrior Together
She's a great lady.
Family On Fertility
"Sometimes friends trot my story out as an example of hope for others struggling with infertility . . . I don't want to be an example of anything."
Meta Toast Points for the Week of August 7th
This week's Toast Points.
Family Grief in the Diaspora
Tasbeeh Herwees on the difficulty of mourning and grief when your family is scattered across the globe.
