My world shattered when I became a widow. I am now attempting to reassemble the broken shards into something damaged, fractured, and scarred, yet beautiful.
Today, as could have been predicted, I received many calls and messages from those wishing me a happy holiday, including at least a few that were quite unexpected, coming from individuals with whom I rarely get to speak. As the first Thanksgiving without my husband, I’m certain everyone expected it to be an extremely difficult […]
I finally did it! Those of you who know me well (or even reasonably so) know that my husband and I would take frequent walks. We were fortunately able to do so on an almost daily basis, as I worked from home, as technically did he. What started out as simply a way to simply […]
You know those hoarding shows on television? The ones where some lonely, pitiful person is in danger of suffocating under piles of old newspapers or cannot use certain rooms or hallways in their house because it’s filled with so much stuff? I’m not a fan of these shows, and haven’t really watched an entire episode, […]
Remember those inexpensive, little kaleidoscopes you used as a child? In my case, I generally found them in the gift shop of wherever our field trip happened to be that day, or they were a small gift in a goodie bag from a birthday party. You would hold it up to your eye and turn […]