The Other Side Of Goodbye

My husband passed away almost three years ago. Recently, a woman showed up at my door saying the kid she had with her was my late husband’s child. I don’t know if it’s true and I don’t care. I told her that he was gone. She almost immediately started demanding “her half” of his estate. … Read more

Why I Refused To Help My Stepson

I have 5 stepkids. I adopted them all except Nick. He never wanted me to be his mom, which is fine. Recently, he complained about not getting help with his 2 daughters. He asked me to step up and watch the kids. I refused and told him the reason. He didn’t take it well, then … Read more

The Garden That Grew Me

My aunt’s garden was the envy of the block. Vibrant flowers, flawless hedges, vegetables that looked grown for a magazine cover. Some said she had a gift. Last year she moved to a retirement home. When I was cleaning out her shed, I found a dusty old journal tucked behind a stack of empty flowerpots. … Read more

The Truth Hidden In Our Blood

My parents and I did 23andMe DNA tests. They each received a panicked message from a woman on the other side of the world who had matched as their daughter. When I logged into my account, it showed that I had zero DNA matches with my parents. Turns out, I wasn’t biologically related to them … Read more