March 2022, Here's What Happened

My dad owned Johnny Burnett Pools and Spas with a showroom and a handful of inground pools built on the property visible from I-40 West in North Little Rock, Ark. As soon as I was old enough, I worked for him. I worked at his […]

Meeting Her

March 26, 2022March 26, 2022

by Heather Burnett

A year earlier in the spring of 1991 when I was seventeen and living solo with my dad in the U-shaped house of my childhood, I had no idea what a treasured blessing it would be to spend the last semester of my junior year […]

Murdered

March 22, 2022April 1, 2022

by Heather Burnett

“We cried because we could feel our lives being torn apart and scarred forever,” mom wrote. This is the moment I thought of on 9/11 because this type of anguish features Superman-strength muscle memory.

Roses

March 19, 2022March 19, 2022

by Heather Burnett

The teal green 1992 Pontiac Grand Am my dad gave me for high school graduation instead of the boob job I asked for flew down I-40, but it wasn’t fast enough. We hit every hole and bump on the road, and as we did, a […]

Intro – Here’s What Happened

March 16, 2022July 2, 2022

by Heather Burnett

What happened to your dad? Can you talk about it? What did you do? Did they ever find out who did it? How did I, a young adult at the time, “move on” with my life after being thrust into living without someone who I […]

Month: March 2022

Missing

Meeting Her

Murdered

Roses

Intro – Here’s What Happened