New Growth by flower farmer Rebecca Starling

New Growth by flower farmer Rebecca Starling

The seeds of my future were planted by my ambitious feminist mother who saw boundless potential in her children to do whatever they wanted, provided they worked tirelessly to achieve their goals. These blossomed into the wonderful gifts of confidence and a sense of possibility that were fostered by the English boarding school system. It [...]
On the run from myself, by social advocate Fatosh Eliana Delgado

On the run from myself, by social advocate Fatosh Eliana Delgado

I was born in the 70s in beautiful war-torn Cyprus. People were terrified on each side of a once united island now divided by the most shameful violent civil war. Families were torn apart, people were misplaced and made homeless, missing bodies silently waited to be discovered years later. As this new Cyprus became fragmented [...]
Finding My Funny Bone, by lawyer and writer Matthew Benz

Finding My Funny Bone, by lawyer and writer Matthew Benz

It’s not every day that 10 people point at you, yell ‘Die!’ in unison and all collapse laughing, but it happened to me, and I look forward to it happening again. It was during an ‘Introduction to Improv’ class that I took last November, and which I may never have tried if I hadn’t done [...]