The Thirty-Second Ledger: How My High School Bully Handed Me Her Family’s Bankruptcy Papers
Ten years is a long time to spend keeping your head down, but it is just enough time...
Author: Katherine C. Lund
What Daddy Hid Inside His Old Accordion When My Brothers Took the Farm
The fluorescent lights of the county probate office hummed with a dry, buzzing vibration that made my temples...
The Card in the Coffee Can That Proved My Brother Never Really Died
Mama always said my brother died as a baby. Winter of 1958, before I was old enough to...
The Ledger of Blood and Interest: How My Twenty-Five Thousand Dollar Loan Led to Their Final Fall
The morning air in central Iowa always has a pale, watery look to it when October starts turning...
The Debt Beyond the Contract: How My Twenty-Five Thousand Dollar Loan Led to Their Final Fall
The linoleum under my kitchen table has a little scratch near the left leg where my husband’s wheelchair...
The Debt Beyond the Contract: How My Twenty-Five Thousand Dollar Loan Led to Their Final Fall
The smell of damp wool and old pine needles always brings me right back to the autumn afternoon...
The Wrong Total: How My 1998 Math Error Stole Twenty Years From a Student Nurse
The cedar floorboards of my sunroom have this dry, hollow pop whenever I walk across them in stocking...
Seven Foot Seven: How Nine Years of Farm Co-Op Payouts Exposed My Brother’s Betrayal
My brother Alonzo and I inherited our parents’ 200 acres when the heart attack took them both within...
The Blood We Claim: What a Hospital Lab Slip and a 1994 Secret Cost My Family
The envelope from the regional blood center sat right beside the toaster on Tuesday morning, wedged against a...
The Forty-Minute Warmth: What Fifty-Two Years of Hidden Devotion Taught Me After He Passed
The frost on the windshield of our old Buick had that particular, sharp gray look to it that...