Love after heartbreak is never the same as love the first time. It’s softer but also sharper, guarded but still daring enough to hope. When my first marriage collapsed five…
A few months ago, my husband, Caleb, and I were at this dinner party with some of our neighbors when he suddenly brought up that he wanted to homeschool our…
The Git Up Dance Challenge is a viral dance challenge that originated in 2019 with the release of the song “The Git Up” by the American country rapper Blanco Brown.…
We asked our 2.5-year-old daughter a simple question one evening: “How many people live in our house?” We expected her to say four—me, my husband, her, and her baby brother.…
When my grandmother first showed me her method for cleaning a clogged dryer vent, I couldn’t help but raise an eyebrow. It looked too easy to be true. She didn’t…
You know that split second when you can feel your partner about to do something outrageous, but your brain refuses to process it? That was me at Terminal C, baby…
The biker terrified me so much that I called 911 three times before they finally arrested him for playing hopscotch with my autistic daughter. Six-foot-four. Three hundred pounds. Skull tattoos…
“Will you k*ll my mom boyfriend?” child begged to the old biker as he was pumping gas when tiny fingers tugged his leather vest from behind. I turned around ready…
A Call Unlike Any Other It was well past midnight in Sumter, South Carolina. Most families were fast asleep, their homes warm and quiet. But in one small house, a…
I had been counting down the days until our fifteenth wedding anniversary, imagining palm trees swaying over turquoise waters, the girls giggling in the sand, and my husband and I…
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