The Stranger Who Saved My Son Was My Estranged Mother And I Found Her Note
The envelope sat on the corner of my cluttered oak desk for three hundred and sixty-five days, wedged...
Author: Katherine C. Lund
The 19th Wooden Figurine on My Porch Ended Nineteen Years of Silence With My Son
Every December first, a hand-carved wooden figure appears on my porch before the sun has even burned the...
The Sound of His Laughter That Broke Thirty-Seven Years of Silence Between Us
A man remembers the sound of a voice long after he has stopped letting himself listen to it....
How A Gas Station Attendant And A Laminated Card Saved My Daughter And Me After The Fire
The upholstery in the back of that 2011 Ford Escape smelled permanently of damp cardboard and the stale,...
The Distance We Keep: Why I Refused to Let an Old Acquaintance Ruin Our Friday Dinners
I reckon you learn a lot about people by the way they handle a lunch bag, or rather,...
Fourteen Months of Sundays: How I Used My Old Nursing Badge to Save My Mother From My Sister
How much of a person’s life can you pack into fourteen months of silence? That was the question...
The Secret After the Bell: What I Discovered Behind Locked Classroom Doors
Ten years old is a strange, delicate age where your child starts pulling just an inch away from...
The Letter My Husband Left Me After Thirty-Two Years That Exposed His Brother
The ham sandwiches at the parish hall were cut into exact triangles, the crusts trimmed off with a...
I Believed My Husband’s Lie For Two Years Until A Doctor Revealed The Truth
The sound of the monitors flatlining is something that never truly leaves your head once it settles in,...
The Weight of Fourteen Springs
The river didn’t ask permission when it came over the concrete banks of Elm Street in the spring...