The Debt Paid in Cans: How a Student I Helped in 1985 Found Me at the Food Pantry
The linoleum under my boots had that particular gray, worn-down look of a place that had seen a...
Author: Katherine C. Lund
The Signature on the Table: How a Hidden Second Mortgage Broke Thirty-One Years of Trust
The morning air in the foothills always smells like damp pine needles and woodsmoke when October starts turning...
The Apple Watch Notification That Proved My Husband Was Trapped in a Corporate Extortion Trap
How many years does it take to realize that the person sleeping six inches away from you in...
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...
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...