How Timed Coffee Runs and My Nephew Curtis Helped Me Escape Roland Before He Caught Me on the Porch
For six years I have timed my husband Roland’s mornings from behind the floral kitchen curtain. He leaves...
Author: Kiera Howell
How Finding Out My Boyfriend Was Still Married Led Me Straight to His Wife’s Dental Office
I am not here to ask for your pity because I know exactly how this sounds. You can...
How My 81-Year-Old Grandmother Frances Let Her Children Try to Steal Her House Before She Handed the Elder Law Attorney Dr. Okafor’s Letter
My grandmother Frances has done the Star Press crossword in ink every single morning for fifty years, and...
How Gutting My Newborn Daughter’s Nursery While Danielle Was in the Hospital Led to the Envelope at My Door
I know you are going to hate me, and you should go ahead and say it. While my...
How My Husband Marcus Thought He Cleaned Out Our Son’s College Fund Until I Called the Fraud Line
I opened Ethan’s college account on a Tuesday morning at 8:14 to make the fall semester deposit, and...
How My Mother-in-Law’s Christmas Eve Gift Return Cost Her the House She Thought She Owned
Paulette leaned in so close I could smell the peppermint from the after-dinner mints she always kept in...
How I Used Fourteen Hours of Driving and Title Records to Take Back My House From Lorna and Coach Brett
I finished my rotation on the rigs three days early and drove fourteen hours straight from Odessa to...
How My 58-Year-Old Mom Let a 29-Year-Old Teach Her Own Accounting Manual Before She Handed the CFO Her Resignation
I still have the worn leather ledger cover my mother Gwen brought home in the spring of 1990,...
How My 71-Year-Old Father Earl Kept Saturday Mornings Alive for Our Neighbor Until My Son Took the Wheel
My father Earl has lived on Dunmore Street in Chillicothe for forty years, right across the asphalt from...
How My Grandpa Leon’s Ugly Mantel Painting Hiding a Second Canvas Revealed a Secret Forty-Year Love Affair
I spent thirty-four years working the triage desk at the county hospital over in Zanesville, so I learned...