This collection of short stories covers a variety of topics that are common and uncommon to modern everyday life. The subjects include: aging parents and empty nest syndrome, the grief experienced after the death of a loved one, living without true love, overweight teens and invisibility, teenage pregnancy and prostitution, learning life lessons thru reincarnation, the mystical and shape shifters, how one's truth dictates their interactions with others, the woes of women and the disdain with which some men treat them.