“You should put up with him,” my friend said as she flopped down on my bed, settling in to watch a movie. “Getting fired and drinking too much isn’t that bad.” She propped herself up on a few pillows and cracked open a can of Diet Coke. “Besides, guys willing to deal...

The house smelled like Christmas morning as the scent of Blueberry Cream Cheese French Toast Bake poured out of the oven. For the 23 years we’d been together, we usually only had this meal once a year on Christmas because it’s not exactly healthy, but lately, we’d...

I know the exact moment I fell madly in love with the man who would become my husband.  It was a busy Sunday morning at the Good Earth. He checked us in with the hostess, who gave him a pager and told him it would go off in about an hour. We decided to wait outside in...

~An all-over-the-place rambling story about grief doing what grief does~ One extremely cold night in January this past winter, I was getting ready for bed when I heard a loud crash on the poolside of our house. It shook the whole house, rattling pictures on the walls,...

She sat on a floral-patterned couch across from us, awkwardly staring at the wheels on my wheelchair. We had just given her a general overview of what we were hoping to accomplish in therapy and were waiting in a long, uncomfortable silence for her response. One...