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.
My husband was a rather private man. Despite being charming and well-liked by most people, he was still quite an enigma. A recent conversation with my cousin (yes, that one, the one who dropped everything to rush more than 1,000 miles away to ensure I was OK when A was hospitalized) made me realize how little […]
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Obviously when you lose someone, especially someone who has been such a major part of your life for such a long time, there are numerous changes in your life. I have been learning to build things and make repairs (or at least need to make them before the professionals must be called in), all financial […]
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I’ve avoided posting anything for several days now, mainly because I’m not sure what to say that I haven’t already said many times in various ways. It all boils down to the fact that I really miss my husband and I’m sad, and angry, and hollow knowing I’ll always miss him and there’s nothing I […]
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When my husband proposed to me, he did it with a beautiful round cut diamond just under a carat. After wearing a “promise ring” for several years prior that was little more than a diamond chip (with a running joke that it was his promise to buy a better ring), my engagement ring looked enormous […]
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Many Faces of Cheri G 