For as long as I can remember, I've been sewing buttons back onto shirts for my dad and three brothers. It used to be easy when we lived in the same house. But as us kids have grown up and moved away, ...

I am 7 years old, sitting on a cast-off dining chair that screeches like a banshee when it’s pushed across the concrete floor. My feet do not reach the floor, but that’s OK, because the sewing machine ...