If I were ready to return to work after 14 weeks of disability. But you gave me no choice. My short-term disability ran out, and I'm not prepared to live without the extra money. Sure, I get social security, but…

Maybe I should have asked you to please tell me that the world was a safe place ; Maybe I should have asked you to hug me more, to hug me until I squirmed to be free;

What should I have asked you the last time I saw you? It never occurred to me to ask if were tired of me. Or if you had met someone else. I assumed you were content. After ten years, you…

“Why ask me that?” She turned away from him and he could sense she was about to swing her legs to the floor. “Don’t,” he said, stopping her. He pulled her arm, trying to guide her gently back to lying…

Fatigue. Interminable policy-, boundary-, and expectation-setting discussions. Tantrums, sometimes my own. I frequently feel like a single mother of four children. I've never been a parent, but the statement rings true. Owning a business alone, and having four people on…

Courtesy of the hard-won engineering degree he got through the GI Bill, my father pulled my mother, my sister and me up the socioeconomic ladder, from the working class to the middle class. When he started college, I was only…

She was built like a WWII tank, short but mighty in a square steely reliable way, complete with a dome of short cropped hair and a metal-rimmed pair of glasses that seemed embedded into her nose and cheeks. I never…

The cafe bustles, clinks of plates and glasses and utensils, an early morning dirge. She looks up from her paper. Where a chair was empty not just a moment before, he sits. She looks down at her paper. He clears…

All violence is not equal Kristallnacht is what the Germans called the pogroms of November 9 and November 10. Agatha knew it as the end of her ability to call Germany home. Nothing that was Jewish in Germany was untouched,…

I try so hard not to let it get to me, to breathe and not drive myself insane with all the atrocities that presently occur. This morning, I made the mistake of looking at my phone, and Newsbreak came up…

Beatrice took both of Rowan hands, "Can we talk?" Rowan couldn’t believe her ears. Beatrice, her partner for 40 years, had spent the last 10 of them slowly fading into dementia. The last 3 months, she had plummeted into days…