Category: Stories

When I first met Luke at the church’s Thanksgiving dinner, I was still raw from my divorce. Three years of watching my first husband disappear into his work, his silence, and his…

“Do you remember when we built that barn?” Harold asked, gazing out the window. “How could I forget… You smashed your thumb with a hammer so hard the cow in the shed…

The Wesenbergs found Ted dead in their swimming pool. His body was floating like a pool float, and Paul Wesenberg had dived into the water to save his son, but it was…

I had always believed that my time had passed. The design had been my dream, but life quickly set its priorities: first, my husband, then my child, the house, and the responsibilities….

When I found out I was pregnant, I wasn’t ready to tell anyone. Not my friends. Not my family. I just wanted to keep it between my boyfriend, my doctor, and myself….

When I pictured my wedding day, I thought the tears would come when I saw my husband waiting at the altar — not while standing alone on the dance floor, begging my…

Family was the only thing that mattered, right? At least that was how my parents raised me since early childhood. I was not taught those toxic beliefs that all other relationships were…

I usually don’t count how many times I sigh during the day. But that evening, I was already at number five, and it was only 6 p.m. The kitchen smelled like dry-erase…

I was pretty confident my husband and I had the parenting thing figured out. More than figured out: refined. Our fridge looked like a Pinterest board — covered in colorful chore charts…

Ten years. That’s how long I’ve been slinging plates at one of the fanciest restaurants downtown. You see all sorts of folks in this line of work, couples on first dates practically…