The Thermos on Sundays: What I Found in My Late Husband’s Glovebox After Nine Years
The green enamel of the old Thermos had begun to chip around the lip where Odell always gripped...
Author: Katherine C. Lund
The Shadow on My Scan: What the DMV License Renewal Test Cost Me at Seventy-Nine
The linoleum under my boots had that particular gray, worn-down look of a municipal office that had seen...
The Distance Between Four O’Clock and Home: What My Six Weeks in Rehab Taught Me About Emory
The linoleum under my wheelchair had a slight yellowish cast that never quite came clean no matter how...
The Missing Count: How My 1998 Arithmetic Error Stole Twenty Years From Clara Vance
The cardboard box smelled of dry basement dust, fading printer toner, and forty years of hospital floor wax...
The Drawing in the Hallway: How My Daughter’s Crayon Box Broke Three Years of Quiet
The digital clock on my microwave blinked 4:14 Sunday evening when the front door swung open and Lily...
The Chair in the Corner: How My Husband’s Two Years of Silence Broke My Heart After He Died
The linoleum under my kitchen table has always had a faint scratch near the left leg where Arthur’s...
The Wire Instructions: How My Husband’s Hidden Debts Stole My Mother’s House
The morning air in southern Louisiana always smells like damp river mud and crushed sweet olive when April...
The Ledger of Grace: What Six Years of Counting Church Mission Offerings Taught Me About Pastor Thomas
The cedar floorboards of the Grace Community administrative office have a very dry, hollow pop whenever I walk...
The Booth at Olive Garden: How My Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Confession Ended in Total Destruction
The heavy vinyl of the booth at Olive Garden had a small tear right near the inside corner...
The Reserved Table at Bella Notte: Why My Husband Faked a Nineteen-Year Hatred of Italian Food
How many years does it take to realize that the person sleeping six inches away from you in...