On The Edge of The Window I stood at the edge of the window in my family’s fifth floor apartment and wondered if I could fly. Just a few hours earlier, after enjoying yet another dream with my beloved and beautiful brown eagle, I made up my mind that today would be the day. Today I would finally be brave. Today I was going to fly away. Most of the time I considered Sundays to be my favorite day of the week. I would spend them alone watching over my baby brother which I felt w

In the heartless yet beautiful city of Moscow, frightened and in pain, Natalia lay on her bed. She was barely 17. It was May 1st but, by now, she had lost all track of what day or even what month it was. The only thing she could guess at that moment was the time - one in the morning. That’s when her regular workday usually ended. This night was different. A few minutes ago, her pimp let an unexpected client in. Supposedly he was an important politician who was too horny to fa

"It doesn’t matter what mistakes you made yesterday. What matter is what you are going to do differently today!" by Veronika Gasparyan We all come to the point in our lives when the only option that we see is to give up; on ourselves, our family, our friends, and our future. But what if we knew that better days and happiness were just around the corner? What if we knew that difficult times we are in at the moment were the worst they would ever be, and it’s all just a test fro

A positive parenting is the key to success of your child, from the young age and for the rest of his or her life. Child rearing (also called parenting) is the way parents support and raise their children, aside from the biological aspect of it. This process involves promotion of social, intellectual, financial, and emotional development. The most important people who influence children and how they grow throughout their life are their immediate relatives and family members. M

If I say that writing my personal story wasn’t a hard thing to do, I would be lying. It was the most challenging thing I have ever done in my entire life. I am not even talking about the language barrier I had to face or the grammar. I am talking about being caught up in a total emotional roller coaster, with “giving up” moments. It was already bad enough that most of my relatives thought it was not a good idea and that the book will be a total failure. To add to the