The Knock That Changed Everything “Not all wars are fought overseas—some are waged quietly at home.” The knock on the garage door was…
The Story: A Bitter Awakening At 23, I am at an age people often describe as “mature enough to understand life, yet naive…
The Story: A Bitter Awakening At 23, I am at an age people often describe as “mature enough to understand life, yet naive…
By the time the sun slipped behind the low hills of southern California, heat was still rising from the asphalt of the Target…
The first time Caleb McCalister called a war hero “lady” like it was an insult, the November sun over Southern California was so…
The first time a four-star admiral spoke my name, the American flag was snapping like a whip in the Alaskan wind and my…
The first thing that hit me that morning was the cold sting of the Pacific breeze sweeping across the entrance of the military…
The night she asked to open our relationship, Manhattan skyline pins glinted from the brim of a Yankees cap hanging on our coat…
By the time the Nebraska Lottery logo stopped blinking on my phone screen, my fingers were smeared silver and my whole life was…
By the time the police in Nebraska finished photographing my parents swinging a baseball bat through a stranger’s living room, the cornfields outside…