Who Will I Be in Germany? A Teacher’s Identity Crisis Before Marriage

Just three months before my students graduate, I'm fighting my own senioritis. Getting married and moving to Germany means leaving behind the only adult identity I've ever known.

I Used to Be a Wife, a Writer, and 20 Other Things: The Night I Started Writing Again

Thirty-two and sitting on my Virginia porch with red wine and a laptop, I hadn't written in two years. Not since Nashville. Not since the divorce. Tonight, the first writing tingle returned—would it be enough to reclaim what I used to be?