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How I stopped singing the dorm-room blues

Sandra Scott

I loved college—except on weekends.

Evan Mehlenbacher

On what should have been a quiet, routine commute, a verbal battering caught me by surprise.

Heather Worley

“Can I really do this?

Valerie Minard

I joined a gym that opened close to my home.

Eileen Stoecklin

Dear Shauna,

Eileen Stoecklin

My husband and I bought a house right next door to Norm’s Drive-Through Convenience Store.

Sandra Scott

Just as my daughter's softball game was about to begin, the team's coach asked me run the concession stand.

Amy Anderson

The landscaping business my husband and I owned in the ’70s failed after a two-year drought.

Chris Raymond

Remember a few years ago when people got a kick out of those visual perception puzzles?

Jenny Roemer Nelles

I'm walking around the neighborhood trying to clear my head.

Marjorie Moore

“No matter how good the ocean looks, don’t go in it,” the hotel employees warned me.

Andy Anderson

Susan and I had been married for 14 years and had three wonderful young children.