Fourteen years of marriage, two wonderful kids, and a life I thought was solid as stone. But everything I believed in came crashing down one evening when Stan brought her into our home. It was…

From the moment Nathan introduced us to his fiancée, I knew something was off. It wasn't that she wasn't sweet or lovely, because she was. Her name was Tessa, and she'd come to Chicago with…

I never imagined I would not be able to give my child a better life. When I got pregnant with Jace, I thought living in my late mother's old trailer was just temporary. The pregnancy…

Grief changes you in ways you never expect. Some days, it's a dull ache in your chest. Other days, it blindsides you like a sucker punch to the heart. That summer morning in my kitchen,…

I never knew my mother, and my father never spoke about her. All I knew was that she had been very beautiful, because of the picture that hung on my father's study wall, and that…

"Dad, don't worry. I'm going to work something out. But I can't visit you at all because I don't have any more PTO at work," Angelina told her father, 87-year-old Chris Harvey when he called…

You ever get a hunch about something, one of those gut feelings that just won't leave you alone? That's exactly what happened to me recently, and it set off a chain of events I never…

The ocean breeze hit differently here, away from the urgency I was used to back in Silicon Valley. I'd forgotten what it felt like to breathe without checking my phone every few seconds. My sister…