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by Amy Herting The words reach out through the years to touch the heart of every parent in any age. The grave is weathered, ornate and...

by Kristin Troyer The tour was meant to deter us grade-schoolers, I guess, from slipping checkout-aisle candy bars in our pockets or ...

  by Janna Vought             I was raped.  Yes, rape, that dirty four letter word that makes people cringe with discomfort.  Yes, rape...

by Sheila Morris In 1965 when I was a freshman in college my parents bought their first home ever in Rosenberg , Texas , after almost twe...

by Michelle Valois            We called them slickers.   Mine was hard, yellow plastic, with a tear under one arm that we tried to tape...

by Jane Hertenstein Every couple has their own story, but certain stories are stranger than fiction. That’s our story. It was 1985, a time...

by Linda C Wisniewski             The empty house echoes as I work. Here in my parents’ postwar version of the American Dream, women’s voi...