Ashley Mays

A couple months after I’d broken up with my boyfriend, we were having a conversation online. He desperately wanted to spend more time together “as friends,” while I wasn’t interested in being [...]

During the summer of 2005, I had no trouble convincing my campers to memorize Bible verses before we headed off to our morning cabin Bible study time. I wish I could say it was because I was a [...]

Dear Me in 2004, I know what happened to you a month before this picture was taken. I know you haven’t told anybody about it. I know you feel like a fraud because, in a couple of weeks, you’re [...]

Right before my first day of kindergarten, my mom sat down with me and, over a bowl of chicken noodle soup, she shared the secret of finding great friends. The next day I showed up at school [...]

“I don’t know what to do anymore. I feel like an empty shell of a person. I go to class, say hi to my friends, and come back to my room and cry. What happened to me? I’m so scared the rest of my [...]

I never imagined I’d be the girl stuck in an unsafe relationship, but if my life were a movie, viewers would have screamed at me to run the other direction the moment I met my first [...]

My husband is heartless. I know it sounds harsh, but this is literally the way he describes himself. What he really means is that he sees the world through the lenses of logic and thought. My [...]

We sat across the room from each other for three or four days, but we didn’t speak much. Maybe a smile or two were exchanged on occasion, but all I knew about the girl with long black hair [...]

The photographer handed me a microphone and sat me on a stool in front of a background full of lens flares and neon. “You’re a star!” He told me. “Why don’t you sing [...]