The Other Side of the Calendar: How My Sister’s Public Birthday Setup Backfired When I Found Mom’s Garment Bag
Clara laughed right in my face at the family dinner, telling everyone I was so heartless I had...
Author: Jerry B. Case
The Silence After the Meal: How My Nephew’s Coached Insult Cost My Brother His Inheritance
The house always smelled of pot roast and floor wax on the second Sunday of every month, a...
The Chef at Table Four: How My Son’s Public Humiliation Backfired When I Opened the Deed
The rain against the diner window always left these gray, mineral streaks that no amount of vinegar water...
How My Mother in Law’s Living Room Interventions Backfired When I Turned Over the Table and Showed Them the Deed
The morning air in Baton Rouge during late October usually carries that particular sweet dampness of river water...
How My Son and His Wife Moving in for Three Weeks Backfired When I Locked the Door and Cancelled the Card
I always get it wrong when I try to measure people by what they owe me, starting with...
The Table of Honors: How My Mother’s Mother’s Day Text Backfired When I Stepped Onto the National Stage
How do you measure five years of your life when the people who birthed you decided you never...
The Promise He Kept: How My Sister’s Hospital Bedside Revealed the Real Truth About Her Marriage
The fluorescent lights in the fourth-floor corridor of Saint Jude Memorial Hospital had a dry, electric hum that...
The Price of My Survival: How Twenty Days in an ICU Exposed My Husband’s Three-Year Asset Scheme
The monitors in room 412 of St. Jude Memorial had a very particular rhythm that got inside your...
How My Daughter Turned My Retired Living Room Into an Unlicensed Daycare Center While I Was at Pottery Class
The blue backpack smelled of damp wool and old peanut butter, the kind of stale middle-school scent I...
How My Daughter Turned My Retirement House Into an Unlicensed After-School Daycare and Sold My Living Room
The blue backpack smelled of damp wool and old peanut butter, the kind of stale middle-school scent I...
