Trends n Tales

I’m Owen, 27, and for as long as I can remember, my father has been the man I measured every other man against. He was the kind of person who filled a…

My granddaughter’s prom dress arrived the day after her funeral. I thought I’d already made it through the hardest part of losing Gwen, but seeing that box on my front porch made…

Hosting my husband’s 40th birthday party in our backyard seemed like a great idea, until I was surrounded by loud music, loud guests, and what seemed like a whole kindergarten class. And…

The morning Sam disappeared began like any other, which is what haunted me most. There was no fight. No slammed doors. No warning in his voice. I was standing in our narrow…

I’m 35 years old, and if someone had told me seven years ago that I’d be writing this story today, I would have laughed until my sides ached and tears streamed down…

I’m Miley, 34 years old, and this is the story of how I went from being a happily single career woman to marrying a homeless man, only to have my world turned…

I’ve always thought my mother-in-law, Linda, was a good woman. She’s a school teacher, well-respected, and always smiling. It seemed like she loved my sons, Peter, who’s 12, and Matthew, 6. Peter…

I loved my daughter more than anything I had ever known. I knew her moods by the way she closed a door, her habits by the sounds she made in the next…

Have you ever woken up and felt like the world was just slightly tilted on its axis? That was me on the morning we were supposed to leave for a dream family…

I wasn’t planning to read her messages. The phone was lying on the kitchen table when it lit up, buzzing softly against the wood. I glanced at it without thinking. I wish…