Articles by Valy Valy

Angelina Jolie’s life has never followed a neat or predictable path. Marked by reinvention and an insistence on living honestly, her story resists the simplified […]

An empty house carries a heavy silence during the holidays. At seventy-eight, I knew that feeling well. Two years had passed since my wife, Margaret, […]

I never thought a piece of clothing could hurt so much. The jacket had belonged to my mother. Dark blue, slightly worn, but full of […]

I paced the hospital waiting room, trying to look calm while obsessively checking the clock. My wife was in labor, and my mind raced with […]

My in-laws tried to quietly push my father out of my wedding because he worked in sanitation, claiming it was about “image.” I was furious. […]

Thanksgiving had become a quiet, lonely affair for me. My wife had passed years ago, my children were far away, and my 78-year-old house echoed […]

Just minutes ago in Los Angeles, Ashton Kutcher was officially named the global lead ambassador for the Alzheimer’s Association, stepping into a role far weightier […]

She was only a young girl, yet her body endured what most never face. Carrying triplets had been grueling from the start, and she bore […]

At seventy-seven, Winifred knew trouble before it arrived. That morning in Wirral, while using an ATM, she sensed danger—a trio of men closing in. When […]