I wasn’t the kind of guy who attracted trouble. If you’d asked anyone—friends, coworkers, even my ex—they’d all say the same thing.  Roger? Solid. Boring, maybe. Predictable, definitely. Accountant through and through.  The kind of guy who clips coupons and files taxes early.  But, my life was about to take a turn I never expected.  …

I’ve spent most of my life cleaning up Cody’s messes.  That’s what older brothers do—or at least, that’s what I tell myself every time I’m dragged into another one of his disasters.  Every Vegas trip we take is supposed to be business—a chance to check on hotel clients and make sure their pool supply orders …

There are things in life you can control, and others you can’t.  Your wife deciding she’s “done” with you because she wants “more,” falls into the “others category.  Laura always wanted more—more vacations, more clothes, better stuff. And she apparently found someone she thought could keep up with her tastes: Trevor King, a real estate …

The thing about traveling as much as I do is, you get used to the little things going wrong. A wrong turn here, a delayed check-in there—it comes with the territory. Usually, one call to customer service clears it all up, no big deal. That’s what I thought this time.  Just a quick call to …

There’s always that one guy.  You know what I mean.  He’s loud, drinks too much, and gets in your face if you so much as breathe in his direction. And, he’s always there.  At Rich’s bar, that guy was Mitch.  And thanks to some ridiculous house rules, it was my job to put up with …

It was the kind of slow day at Walmart where you catch yourself wondering if time has stopped. I was stuck in the electronics department, killing time by rearranging the video games. It was a dull routine—line them up, alphabetize, realize nobody cares, and start over again. I wasn’t expecting anything exciting to happen. Then, …

Some dates are boring. Others are awkward.  But this one? This one turned into a full-on nightmare. If I’d known how bad things would get, I never would have agreed to meet Greg.  From the moment we sat down, I knew something wasn’t right. But it wasn’t just his bad jokes or creepy vibe… …it …

They say that when you face death, you learn what truly matters.  But I learned a different lesson: sometimes, the worst battles come after you think you’ve won. After months of chemotherapy, I believed the hardest part of my life was behind me. My body had been ravaged by the fight against cancer, but I …

They say your life can change in an instant, but no one ever tells you it might be because of a letter. It was an ordinary Thursday when I found it.  It was a court order on my workbench, slipped under the door while I worked on Mrs. Thompson’s old Honda. It claimed I was …

Family is supposed to be your safe place. But for me, family has always been more like a performance, with my stepmother as the director, my sister Vanessa as the star, and me as the stagehand. Margaret married my dad when I was seven. I remember standing at their wedding, wearing an itchy lace dress, …