The night that changed my life
by Jean-Marc Bouchard In January 2004, when I was 42 years old, I spent my first night in an empty two-bedroom apartment I’d just rented. The place had no furniture, no oven, no table, no couch. At three o’clock in the morning, I was alone and freezing in my sleeping bag. How could I know this old hot-water heating system was not able to do its job when the temperature fell below minus 20 degrees centigrade outside? It was...
Thanks for cheating on me
by Jeffrey Wilson By January of 1994, I had achieved my vision and had a “perfect” life – a beautiful wife, two young sons, a house in the suburbs, and I had been named to the management succession plan of the Fortune 500 company where I worked. Everything was just right. A month later in February, I discovered my wife was having an affair. After many lengthy discussions, arguments, and begging sessions, she agreed...
Facing my family anger gene
by Tim Campen My father was a man who lived a difficult life, and he passed along genetic characteristics to me that I wish he’d kept to himself. He was born in 1919, and at the age of eight suffered a sewing needle puncture to his left knee that became infected and quite complicated to treat. His subsequent hospitalization and year out of school, combined with the permanent damage to his leg, changed his life in a way he never...
The day my mom died
by Forrest Arnold The hospice nurse sweetly touched my mom’s fingers and toes, checking the color of her skin, then patted her cheek gently and said, “Today’s the day, Rosie. Today’s the day.” When my mom was diagnosed with breast cancer, she was full of fear. She said, “You know I’ll be dead in five years, don’t you?” I think it was her certainty that shook me up the most. That...
A Devastating Despair
by David Wolff Nine years ago in the deep jungles of the Orinoco River Delta in Venezuela, I was working as a family practice doctor with a team of volunteers. The indigenous people we served had never before seen medical doctors. I met a young woman who never spoke a word to me, yet our encounter changed my life forever. She sat looking down at the limp infant child that lay across her lap. His vacant stare and sunken dry eyes...
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