Waking from A Dream
Macen Kroll
Resilience
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It Isn’t a Battle That Can Be Lost
Macen Kroll
An Extraordinary Life
Macen Kroll
Victorious
Macen Kroll
Knotted Happiness
In eighth grade, I walked down the halls of my middle school, desperate for answers, my heart pounding in my ...
Cancer, More Than a Word
Everyone knows the word cancer, but what does it really entail? According to Webster is 'a disease caused by an ...
Truth and Triumph
A loss is something that everyone has to deal with at one point in time. For most, it's during their adulthood ...
Expecting the Unexpected
It was the month leading to the end of Middle School. Nothing to worry about except enjoying my summer and getting ...
Why Do the Good People Have to Die
We were running through the waves of the ocean and the sun was shining brightly upon us. We were laughing and ...
Cancer Can't Take It All
At that time in my life, I had never seen such courage through heartbreak. Not once had I witnessed someone ...
Losing My Mother to Pancreatic Cancer
When I was four, my parents sat me down and had a conversation with me. A conversation that at the time didn't ...
Beautiful Pain
Cancer. A word that is screamed, spelled, pronounced, explained, even whispered in pain.
My brother is 13 years ...
My Superhero
I always thought of my dad as this invincible superhero who could defeat anything in his path, and protect me from ...
Andrew vs The Bug
Andrew and I were only born ten months apart but that didn't stop me from proudly wearing the title of being the ...
A Letter to Myself
Dear Grace,
Trust me, I know how you feel. I've been there. Your entire world was just turned upside down. Your ...