At 8:12 on a Tuesday night, I was standing in my sister Lauren’s kitchen in Columbus, Ohio, holding her unlocked iPad in both hands while a pot of boxed macaroni […]
My name is Hannah Mercer, and the morning my sister believed she had finally outplayed me, I was standing in our grandmother’s laundry room folding old quilted blankets that still […]
The smell of roasted garlic and rosemary should have been comforting. It was my signature dish, the one I always made when I wanted an evening to feel special, to […]
I was standing in my own living room when my daughter-in-law told me to get out. Not suggested. Not implied. She looked me dead in the eye five days after […]
The scent of garlic and rosemary still clung to our kitchen, a ghost of the life I thought we had. That was the night my husband delivered an ultimatum, and […]
He Chose Me Too A story about what a six-year-old said when all the adults went quiet My parents met Daniel three months after we started dating, at a Sunday […]
Still Chosen A story about what it means to go home to the right person My father always told me the story of how I came to him with the […]
I am sixty-seven years old, and I had been married to Thomas for forty-two of those years, and I believed, with the full confidence of a woman who had shared […]
The first thing I noticed about Jacob was that he had my daughter’s smile. Not the smile she learned somewhere, not the one she practiced in mirrors during the years […]
The Recording A story about what a woman hears when she finally decides to listen I cannot have children. I say it plainly, the way I’ve learned to say it […]