In first grade, we stood each morning to recite the Pledge of Allegiance. It was the late 1960s and all girls were required to wear...

I saw an old friend last weekend (name and info changed.) Mary is a social worker, a few years older than I, smart and witty, quietly...

In the The Wizard of Oz, little Dorothy, in her blue-checked dress, encounters a series of misfits who become friends. First, she meets...

What do you do when your worst fear actually happens?