Part 1: Left on the Kitchen Floor The first contraction struck while I stood in the kitchen with a glass of water in my hand. The pain came so fast…

Part 1: The house was too quiet at 2:47 a.m. I had fallen asleep on the couch again, something I had been doing more often than I wanted to admit….

When Ethan arrived that afternoon he expected me to be crying but found his belongings boxed neatly in the garage. He brought Rebecca along with his mother Margaret and his…

I was sitting in a high stakes meeting on a Tuesday morning when my mother called to casually inform me that she and my father had left my eight year…

I waited until my daughters left for school and my husband went to work before I walked into Mr. Whitmore’s yard with a shovel. I dug into the soft earth…

I visited the hospital on Thursday June 13 to check on my friend David, but I unexpectedly found my former wife Emily sitting alone in a pale blue gown. We…

Rob Hirst, the founding drummer and steady heartbeat behind Midnight Oil, has passed away at the age of 70 following a long battle with pancreatic cancer. The band confirmed the…

My sister Vanessa had always treated responsibility like something she could pass on whenever it became inconvenient. One Saturday morning in Ohio, I opened my door to find her children,…