My family is what keeps me centered and healthy ... Each week in June, we are publishing an essay by an LGBTQ writer that answers this question: Where do you find pride, joy and/or comfort ...

But I am grateful to have my new family — and the loud, boisterous merriment I dreamed of all those years before. Have a personal essay you'd like to share with TODAY? Email TODAYEssays@nbcuni.com.

No one in my family knows for sure how he contracted the ... Do you have a personal essay to share with TODAY? Please send your ideas to TODAYEssays@nbcuni.com. Marisa Sullivan, as told to ...

Only months ago, my family survived Israel’s bombardment of northern Gaza, and I was detained by Israeli forces. Leila’s husband, who was deaf, was killed during Israel’s 2014 offensive in Gaza.

“My family are always trying to buy us a house ... society-wide conversation about class in the midst of this growing inequality. This essay draws on research and interviews from Love ...

I tried again, thinking maybe its aversion was to my request for an essay: “Write 1,500 words on the role of aqueducts in ancient Rome’s success as an empire using six outside sources cited in ...

I'm one of those New Yorkers living in Nashville, but perhaps you will forgive me since my family has deep roots in Natchitoches Parish, Louisiana. Incredibly, my connection to New York began in ...

As my family experienced, under a mass deportation regime, the fear and chaos is the point, and those living here with all the right papers are not immune. While my grandfather was never swept up ...