Kathleen Wheaton

Stories by this Author

The Mother-Daughter Book Club

Mother-daughter book club members, left to right: Pat and Lauren Eng; Margi Kirst and...

The Givers

Photo by Michael Ventura After her daughter, Sophia, started taking classes at The Washington School...

When Everything Changed

The yellow clapboard house where Jennifer Vasquez grew up is immaculate. Her mother, Linda,...

The Natural Gardener

Follow the gravel path that winds among native perennials in garden designer Edamarie Mattei’s...

The Indomitable Spirit of Adam Keys

Combat engineer Adam Keys awoke in September 2010 in a hospital bed at the...

Requiem for a Peacemaker

In retrospect, the email Elizabeth Pochter wrote to her 21-year-old son, Andrew, last June...

Save The World

Sitting on the screened back porch of his brick colonial in Chevy Chase, Carter...

At the Top of Her Voice

Bethesda voice actor Melissa Leebaert’s career began with a roll of Life Savers. It...

Scouts Dis-honor

Lucien Tessier was in seventh grade when he figured out that he was gay,...

Letting Joey Go

Sandra Swenson stood gazing at her son, Joey Petrone, as he lay unconscious with...

What They Didn’t Know

Around 10 p.m. on May 15, 2009, Brian Go, a 20-year-old junior at the...

Angel in Her Corner

It was late November 2009 when Meghan Kingsley of North Potomac realized that she was dying.  She...

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