Lived Stories

I’d known Eleanor Whitfield for nine years before I ever spoke more than five words to her.

I never planned on losing my breath at somebody else's wedding. That's what happened to me

Marlene Hoffman stood in the kitchen of her two-bedroom apartment in Dayton, Ohio, and shut off the faucet

My name is Edward Marlow, and for eleven years I filed other people's paperwork in a law office

Nobody warns you that the hardest sentence you'll ever say out loud is "she doesn'

Forty-one years ago, Everett Boone was a nineteen-year-old ranger's assistant in a logging town

I’m the husband in this story. The one people online decided was a monster. And I get it—when you hear

The thing about Thanksgiving is that it always comes with a script. Everyone has their lines memorized.

Justyna Chase worked as a nurse at Mercy General in Columbus, but on this Tuesday in August she had the

For three years I hadn't raised my hand the way I'd been trained to. For three years I believed