The Humor Side

7 – 8 minutes The sterile, fluorescent-lit hallways of the maternity ward are usually a place defined by the promise

7 – 9 minutes Marriage is often described as a journey of total transparency, a sixty-two-year weave of shared routines,

I was kneeling at the casket of my 24 year old son Daniel on a Tuesday when protesters arrived to

A sailor came home from a secret two-year mission at sea only to find his wife with a newborn baby.

The flashing red and blue lights of a patrol car usually signal an ending, but for me, they were the

When I was sixteen years old in sophomore chemistry with Mr. Jensen, a popular football player named Mark humiliated me

For ten years, I cared for Mr. Whitaker in the home where he had spent most of his life. To

The morning started with the heavy, hollow silence that had become a permanent resident in our home since Jonathan died.

The trauma of high school is supposed to have an expiration date, a silent agreement that once you cross the

The fluorescent lights of the local McDonald’s hummed with a clinical, relentless energy that night, reflecting off the polished linoleum