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.
Every loss is felt distinctly. Each person we lose in our lives affects us differently. Every grief is experienced in a unique way. To compare and judge one person’s pain against another’s is unfair. That being said, losing my husband has been by far the most difficult loss I’ve ever experienced. Am still experiencing on […]
Yesterday I broke. Although I have been broken for quite some time, yesterday was a complete breakdown. The whys and hows don’t really matter, just suffice to say that a fairly minor (in the grand scheme of things) event occurred. Another headache I don’t need, another expense I can’t afford which caused a major meltdown […]
Some days are better than others. That’s the simplest explanation. There are days when I can look back at the life I had with A and smile at all of the amazing memories we made. I look at our three wonderful children and remember how proud of them he was, how excited he was for […]
I had a discussion earlier this week with a friend. She’s not a close friend, as much through logistics as anything else, I suppose, since we live more than 1200 miles away from one another and run in mostly different circles. When we have gotten together in the past, mainly at larger gatherings, I have […]