Global Stories
Mental Health Paper Dreams
Turning from the busy conundrum of a dream full of lies, A bittersweet goodbye; Passion so strong Somehow feels so...
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Lifestyle & Relationships 11 Years After I Moved to South Korea, I Embarked on my Most Memorable Stay in a Korean Temple
“It’s going to snow,” my temple tour guide, Seokun, told me. The grey clouds covered the sun, and the wind...
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Mental Health Why You Shouldn’t Bury Your Past
(Audio recording by Jordan Luz) One of the biggest lies we are told is that it is possible to live...
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Work & Life It’s Okay If You Never Use Your Degree
(Audio recording by Jordan Luz) Students are told they need to go to college or will never succeed. I was...
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Work & Life Healing Beyond Medicine
Sentinel Duet: Check out Yousef Waly’s moving story here for a complementary article from another doctor, also showing why great caregivers...
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Humanity To Treat the Disease, First Treat the Soul.
Sentinel Duet: Check out Snigdha Sharma’s moving story here for a complementary article from another doctor, also showing why great caregivers...
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Mental Health On Autism With My Son, Waiting for the Train
Together, down a level he’s overly tense- ...
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Lifestyle & Relationships The Magic of Lake McCarrons
When I first discovered Lake McCarrons in my home state of Minnesota, I was around 17 or 18 years old....
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Humanity What I’m Learning About Women Aging
(Audio recording by Yosef Baskin) What I’m learning about women aging is we don’t do it alone – everything, from...
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Lifestyle & Relationships Damned If You Do
As a teacher, a member of a large family, and a feminist, I have always had crystal-clear notions about nurturing...
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Mental Health In The Car on the Way to the Hospital
(Audio recording by Jordan Luz) When he circles the roundabout, I am pressed against the car door, And it...
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Fiction Her Mother’s Advice
(Audio recording by Yosef Baskin) Her mother told her when she was young – Be the kind of woman who...
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Mental Health Coping With Lost Time
(Audio recording by Jordan Luz) When I first started college, I always believed I would make something of myself. I...
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Lifestyle & Relationships Thanaka: The Beauty Standard of Myanmar
When a foreigner sets foot in the land of Myanmar, one of the questions I’ve heard is “What is the...
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Un-Breaking the News (UBN) Is There a Rainbow of Possibilities in Malaysia?
The Mid-May 2023 seizure of rainbow-colored Swatch watches from the brand’s Pride Collection at most major shopping malls in Malaysia,...
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Lifestyle & Relationships What The Pandemic Was Really Like For An Introvert Like Me
(Audio recording by Julianna Wages) (Photo by Alisa Anton on Unsplash) For introverts, you’d think that the pandemic would be...
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Fiction Shadows of Misery
Sitting in the shadows of misery Unraveling imprisoned dreams Wishing I can set them free to the sky Wishing I...
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Mental Health Hers Was a Balding, Middle Aged Homeopathic Doctor
and when she told her mother of the “incident” she was told never to speak of it again. Silence served...
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Fiction Egyptian Woman
Sentinel Duet: Read an account from the same writer here discussing being a mother to her beloved kids while coping...
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Mental Health Who Are You? A Survivor
Who are you? What do you do? Those are the questions I am asked whenever I meet a new person....
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Lifestyle & Relationships Adventure Hostess: Making My Home a Global Community
(Audio recording by Brooklyn Riepma) Several people passed by my house this year. Many of them just passed by temporarily,...
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Fiction Runaway Tobias
Editorial note: DG Sentinel does not endorse any religious views of the authors or essays we publish. Our goal is...
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Humanity Sifting Through the Ashes
(Audio recording by Daisy Dabb) I thought it was strange that my mom called me so early in the morning....
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Lifestyle & Relationships I’m Becoming My Mother, But That’s Not a Bad Thing!
(Audio recording by Brooklyn Riepma) When I was a child, my mother told me I’d grow up to be just...
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Mental Health My Partial Program Experience
(Audio recording by Jordan Luz) I have been depressed before, and depressed since. Arguably I am always hovering at some...
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Lifestyle & Relationships Heartbreak Journal
(Audio Recording by Julianna Wages) I can’t even explain how much my heart ached from the pain I felt during...
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Fiction The Choice
The end feels so inevitable when it comes. At least, mine does. I am in my final moments, of that...
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Mental Health Wear Yourself to a Shadow
It is always difficult for me to explain what depression is and how it makes me feel. I’ve seen and...
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Fiction Elf Counsel
One of a sequence presented at the Eisteddfod (a competitive festival of music and poetry centered in Wales, UK) for...
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Lifestyle & Relationships Hey Mum and Dad, We Need You There
(Audio recording by Julianna Wages) There are so many parenting guides out there, and it is challenging raising wonderful little...
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Mental Health The Messy History of a Licensed Psychologist
I have OCD (obsessive-compulsive disorder), ED (eating disorder), depression, severe anxiety, and ADHD (attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder). I’ve always gone to...
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Lifestyle & Relationships How to be Alone: Mastering the Art of Self-Reliance
(Audio recording by Julianna Wages) Throughout my life, I have always been scared of being alone. I would avoid lone...
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Fiction Remove Your Veil
(-based on the old Indian customs related to widows; they were forcefully stripped of all jewellery upon their husband’s death,...
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Mental Health Ming and Hua
This piece is inspired by and thus devoted to Helena Qi Hong. Ming is sure he has fallen in love...
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Lifestyle & Relationships Finding Beauty and Ourselves in the ‘Devil’s Footprints’
(Audio recording by Julianna Wages) Those who don't know Italy well should know that there is no country or village...
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Mental Health Miss Lily Grantham
My garden of wonders bloomed with an amalgamate of pink roses with overlapped thick velvety petals, and herbs –...
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Lifestyle & Relationships How Toxic Relationships Happen, Queer Ones Too
(Photo by Olga Dudareva on Unsplash) (Photo by Gary Butterfield on Unsplash) Nobody wants a toxic relationship, but they just...
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Mental Health Being a Mom in the Era of Mass Shootings
One Saturday in August 2019, parents, grandparents, and children were shopping for school supplies at an El Paso Walmart when...
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Mental Health A Letter To Myself
(Audio recording by Jordan Luz) Hi, it’s been a while. I’m sorry I haven’t talked to you in a bit....
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STEM Journeys Could We Become The Last of Us?
A pandemic caused by fungal spores is the exact premise of a popular gaming franchise called “The Last of Us”....
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Humanity The Immigrant Perspective: A Tale of Resilience
I was four years old then. Yet I still vividly remember feeling the ground shake beneath me, the windows shattering...
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Lifestyle & Relationships Lebanon Staycation: Ten Days, Eight Trips
Sentinel Duet: Check out Julianna Wages’ story here for a complementary perspective and a different experience from another corner of...
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Lifestyle & Relationships Welcome to Japan: The Island That Has Everything
Sentinel Duet: Check out Stephanie Rahi Bassil's story here for a complementary perspective and a different experience from another corner...
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Fiction Win Your Fears
(Audio recording by Andrew Garcia) To be more alive, you have to be less shy, For, stigma and inhibition...
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Humanity Attics, Abuse, and Abortion: Prevention Not Sensationalization Will Keep Children Safe
Attics are used for many things. Sometimes for play. Sometimes for storage. Sometimes for secrets. Too often for hiding. One...
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Lifestyle & Relationships How To Bid Adieu To University: My 4 Tips For Navigating Your Return To The Real World
(Audio recording by Julianna Wages) (Image courtesy of Catherine Griffiths) How often in your life have you closed your ears...
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Mental Health Finding My Way Home: A Journey of Self-Reflection and Acceptance
My childhood was broken up into pieces, with parts of me left in different countries around the world. These memories...
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Lifestyle & Relationships My Immigration Story: France to Canada
I was born in eastern France near the German border, into a large family of modest origin, all raised by...
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Humanity Someone Shot My Hometown
On the morning of July 4th, 2022, I was lying in bed watching videos on my phone when my mom...
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Mental Health Denomination
(Audio recording by Yosef Baskin) Why, I asked him, do we have to return to our dorms at dusk, like...
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