Jade said happily as Becky pushed open the front door to the apartment. Music pounded through the air and people were gathered in the living room, spilling out onto the balcony, despite the cold night. Some of Jade’s friends stood around a table full of appetizers and snacks, drinks in hand, wh...
I’d raised Hannah alone since my ex-boyfriend had decided he wasn’t really the family-man type. He barely saw Hannah for the first several years of her life and then tragically was killed in a car accident when she was three. I felt bad that she’d never have a relationship with her father, but ...
I said apologetically later that night, looking around at the mess Hannah had left in the kitchen: a pitcher of lemonade spilled all over the counter, floor, and front of my dress; sopping wet paper towels scattered about from when we’d tried to clean everything up, and dishes piled in the sink f...
Melissa asked on Thursday night over dinner. She and Amy had decided to meet for a quick bite at a small local Mexican restaurant. Melissa had spent the day taking a newlywed couple all over town looking for their first home. The fact that other people were still getting married and she was no...