The next morning, I peeled a few potatoes to make hash browns for my children’s breakfast. Inside the largest potato lurked a curving...

I eased my aching body into the steaming water, then lay back in the tub with a sigh. All day I’d promised myself that if I were able to...

Why are the exam tables in doctor’s offices located under air conditioning ducts? I shivered. The thin hospital gown was open in the back...

Jack made a grab for the telephone receiver as I hung up the phone, and got a handful of my hair instead. “Ouch!” I pried the strands...

“You’re going to be so warm in these!” With Jack’s gleeful assistance, I tugged pair after pair of footed pajamas out of the UPS box. The...

Powerful gusts of wind buffeted our flimsy single-wide trailer. Sheets of rain assaulted the windows with a sound like distant...