Between the autumn and winter quarters, DePaul students have about six weeks off for winter break before having to endure the cold, exhaustingly long winter quarter. But Emma, who was a sophomore and international...

I was ten years and a week old when my brother Trey was born. We were poor, living in a single-wide trailer in rural Alabama coal country. He was a joyful baby, quick to smile and laugh. He and I bonded...