Lured by the Craigslist estate sale listing, I dressed in my down-at-the-heels bartering garb and grabbed a stained and worn out carryall for finds. The…

She signed up for the ten week class not knowing what to expect. In a way that didn't matter. She loved Kelly, the facilitator, and…

Why would I want to wash all of my past away? Yes, there were bad times and even "dark times," and there was betrayal and…

There is a saying in the theater that ‘eleven o’clock always comes’. It means that no matter how ghastly the show is going, how many…

Living in Woodhaven, Michigan in the 1970s and 1980s, my husband, young son Craig, and I were in a homogeneous bubble. Maybe a person of…

They weren’t really stuck, the words she kept repeating. They flowed. Only she was trapped, her needle scratching the same groove, the record never advancing.…

Sweaters last. Marriages don't. At least that's my experience. There is, in the world of knitting, a widespread superstition - the curse of the boyfriend…

didn't impress her that rainy Monday morning. The bus was only a block away when she got to the bus stop. She actually scored a…

An hour ago Max, Ellie's husband, came home while Ellie was in the kitchen, on the phone with her daughter, Francesca, anatomizing Francesca's arrogant boss…

“Alone? They should go alone?” He shrugged. “We can apply, get the papers, always we can change our minds, if things don't get worse.” He…

I was never ashamed to curl up in Mom’s lap. Even when I reached my full height of 5 feet 5 ½ inches. She still…

The short, sharp cries rend the fabric of the night — there’s a dog barking in the street. He’s likely yet another canine companion driven…