My ex-husband’s new wife sent me a photo this morning, and I sat in the grocery store parking lot staring at it for ten minutes. Chelsea had our daughter, Brynn, dressed in matching pink overalls and butterfly shirts. Their hair was perfect, little bows in place, both smiling like they’d stepped out of a catalog. […]

“He didn’t knock. He stood on the porch, just breathing.” For three years, Ella set a plate at the dinner table for her son, even though he was halfway across the world. “Still deployed,” she’d whisper if anyone asked. But that wasn’t the full truth. He stopped calling after his second tour. His letters stopped […]

My husband and I are in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee and we extended our stay from Brandon, Florida to avoid hurricane Irma. As we were headed to lunch at The Old Mill restaurant, all the lights in our dash came on, from airbags to tire pressure. After We shut the car off, it wouldn’t turn on […]