Category: Comeback

For three years I stood alone in my own backyard on the Fourth of July, lighting the exact same fireworks my son Kevin and I… Read more

Gail Stroud stood up on the courthouse steps with a paper plate in her hand and told the whole square that a certificate does not… Read more

Hollis Deemer waited until the whole room was quiet, then pointed his beer at me and said, “Renata here was never really in it. You… Read more

Chad Rensler stood in my half-poured driveway, folded my deposit check into his shirt pocket, and told me that if I did not like how… Read more

Three days after we buried our father, my brother Dwight slid a folded deed across the kitchen table, told me the whole place was his… Read more

My brother Lonnie stood in my kitchen, chewing a toothpick, and told me he sold our dead father’s Purple Heart because “it was just old… Read more