The morning a police officer changed the entire direction of my life, I had eleven dollars in my checking account, an expired driver’s license, and a job interview in forty […]
Where Safety Is The dining room was too bright for a sentence that ugly. The chandelier my mother had bought specifically to make the room feel warm and generous threw […]
I drove eighteen hours in an old semi-truck to watch my daughter become an Army officer, and I expected the day to belong completely to her. That was the only […]
Remember This Moment My family laughed when I walked into my sister’s wedding alone. That was the first cut. My father made sure the second one was public. He stood […]
Still Standing Outside, the rain battered the windows of Northwestern Memorial as if all of Chicago were washing away an old stain. The monitor beside Robert’s bed continued its soft, […]
The Chair Beside My Husband I never told my in-laws my father was the Chief Justice, mostly because I wanted at least one part of my life to belong to […]
The elevator doors slid open on the fourteenth floor, and Sarah nearly walked straight into Diane. Coffee cups lurched. A work badge swung hard on its lanyard. Diane laughed, steadied […]
Kindness Without a Boundary My name is Holly Forsyth, and at sixty-eight, I learned that the word no fits inside a single text message. I was loading the car for […]
What My Body Was Saying My husband kept his hand on the small of my back as we walked through the automatic doors of St. Mercy Regional, and for the […]
A Restaurant Bill You Refuse to Pay At first, no one realized what I had done. That was the most satisfying part. To understand the satisfaction, you need to understand […]