Ellie Doyle is a mom of three who decided to move away from family for her kids' education. She wants more diversity in their ...

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.

Computer engineer Michael Floyd left his six-figure job to be a stay-at-home dad after three months of parental leave with ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

Still, I tested out a few of the more popular AI essay-helper tools, pretending I wasn’t excited about it, to see how they worked. Here’s my assessment. First up was Grammarly, which prompted ...

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 ...