How My Brother-in-Law Locked Me Out of My House After Wade Died Before I Used the Deed to Stop Him
I came off a brutal twelve-hour overnight shift on the med-surg floor in Roanoke, drove home at seven...
Author: Kiera Howell
How Six Years of $40 Pie Money Let Me Build My Own Main Street Shop While Dale Thought It Was Just a Cute Little Hobby
The morning the gold leaf dried on the front window over the corner shop in Findlay, I stood...
How My Late Father’s 22 Pharmacy Recorders Left in Picture Books Stole the Only Words I Needed
My father Warren had pancreatic cancer last spring, and in his last six weeks he asked me for...
How I Found a $1.2 Million Winning Ticket Taped Under My Late Mother’s Dresser Drawer for My Estranged Sister
I was clearing out my mother Eileen’s dresser two months after we lost her when a bottom drawer...
How the Medical Transport Log From My Late Father’s Swallow Study Proved the Will Left to the Care Home Clerk Was Forged
My father Harold spent his last four months at a care home in Elmira, and every Sunday I...
How My Late Husband Lyle Left a Third of His Estate to the Daughter I Hid for 39 Years
My husband Lyle passed in March, and six weeks later his estate attorney slid a single sheet across...
How My Daughter’s Drawing of Her Bedroom Door Led a Caseworker to Ask About a Boy Named Leo
I work at the front desk of a pediatric clinic over on 4th Street, so my whole day...
How a Four Word Note in a Pharmacy Bag and a Burner Phone Let Me Walk Away From Roy After Twenty-Six Years
Roy drives me to every appointment and waits by the door, even at the pharmacy, so I have...
How My Sister Camille Found Out Her Husband Todd Had a Second Family Through a CVS Text
My sister Camille is the kind of person who leaves the crust on her bread because she thinks...
How I Signed Away My Dad’s $150,000 Insurance to My Sister After Four Words on a Card
I am sitting at the kitchen table with a cold cup of coffee and the yellow legal pad...