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Three months. That’s how long I searched. Flyers on every streetlight. Facebook posts. Craigslist ads. Sleepless nights listening for a bark that never came. He […]

It was supposed to be a quick trip to grab groceries—ten, maybe fifteen minutes tops. I left Rolo, our old mutt with chocolate fur and […]

When my sister, Maelis, went into labor, I was halfway across the state at a motorcycle rally. She’d begged me not to cancel, swore she’d […]

At 45, I finally gave up. I don’t mean in some dramatic, cry-for-help way. I mean I just… stopped. I didn’t wake up that morning […]

I swear I wasn’t trying to ruin anything. Everyone kept saying how perfect it was—the dress, the venue, the man my mom was marrying. I […]

When I married Oskar, I let his family assume I didn’t speak Slovene. At first, it just seemed easier. His parents barely acknowledged me at […]

At first, I thought it was sweet. Thoughtful, even. I’d been juggling work, two kids, and my mother’s slow decline into early dementia. So when […]

I still had the veil in my hair when I climbed into Jalen’s truck, heart racing, dress bunched in my lap like I was some […]

I know how it sounds. I do. But I can’t lie—when my mom told me she’d booked a 30-day cruise through Europe and Asia, I […]

I still remember the last thing she said before walking out: “I need more than this.” “This” was our tiny rental, our loud kids, my […]