My Weird Citizenship
By Jin Lan Chen, April 14, 2019 — My dad got married in China. He moved to California when I was a baby and left me at home with my mom and our helper. He got a birth certificate paper … Continued
By Jin Lan Chen, April 14, 2019 — My dad got married in China. He moved to California when I was a baby and left me at home with my mom and our helper. He got a birth certificate paper … Continued
By Charles, April 13, 2019 — I was born in 1940 and there were relatively few children born in the early 40s because of the war. There were usually people that were few years older than me or a few … Continued
By Anna D’Ulisse, April 7, 2019 — When I was young, I grew up in a family that was very poor, but was very rich with love. We worked on a farm. I was also going to school, but I … Continued
By Ann Marie, April 13, 2019 — After I graduated high school, I went to Florida with my best friends, Donna and Connie. I remember the local newspaper taking a picture of us and captioning the picture about how we … Continued
By Carmella, April 13, 2019 — When I was younger, my family was poor and my siblings and I always received coal in [our] stockings for Christmas. Despite this, we would always decorate the house and try our best to keep … Continued
By Anne S., April 11, 2019 — It was a year after I have been diagnosed with Hodgkin’s Lymphoma and I was at the doctor getting a check up on my current status with cancer after receiving four chemotherapy treatments. … Continued
By Tony S., April 11, 2019 — I grew up in the Bronx, about two blocks away from Crotona Park that contains a mountain in it. My mother’s sister, Aunt Rose, had a son named Larry who we didn’t talk … Continued
By Tony S., April 11 2019 — I have been playing golf since I was a little kid, and I have always dreamed of getting a hole in one. Last year, I was playing a round of golf at Overpeck Golf … Continued