Lunar Society

My mother never complained about pain. That was Ruth Calloway. Sixty-one years old, five-foot-two, stubborn, funny, and incapable of letting discomfort become the center of a room….

The dress had taken four months to find. I found it in March at a bridal shop in Asheville: simple ivory silk, buttons down the back, a…

Michael used to say Lily got her stubbornness from me and her heart from him. I always told him he had it backward. He had been gone…

Calif. Man Pleads Guilty to Sending Fake Nancy Guthrie Ransom Note There’s been another massive update in the disappearance of Nancy Guthrie. Despite extensive efforts by law…

I didn’t think she’d actually hit me. Not my daughter-in-law Ellie. Not the woman I had helped through nursing school and allowed to live in my guesthouse…

The turkey was still steaming when my mother decided to carve into me instead. Thanksgiving at the Vale house always looked perfect from the outside. My parents…

The Lake Cabin I had been retired for less than forty-eight hours when my daughter-in-law decided my new lake cabin was no longer mine. She never said…

The Folder My lawyer’s name is Robert Chen, and he has been my lawyer for twenty-two years. The morning after my granddaughter Rachel’s wedding, I called him…

That October afternoon at Meridian Lake had started like any other. I sat on the porch of the old Oregon house where I had raised my only…