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.
I sometimes feel as though my blog posts are repetitive and without value. It seems the same emotions swirl about my head making random, intermittent appearances like random colored socks in a white load in a laundromat washing machine – now you see it, now you don’t. The white clothing is representative of my zombie-like […]
Yesterday was sort of a weird and somewhat difficult day, but it was also another step toward healing. I had taken a four-hour round trip car ride (the last half of which was spent listening to two squalling felines who were unhappy being trapped in pet carriers for the ride) to visit my daughter and […]
One of the memories I shared at my husband’s Celebration of Life service was how he fell in love with Hawaii when we went there on our honeymoon. Obviously, Hawaii is beautiful and like no other place on Earth, but I think his attachment to it was so immediate and so intense because it was […]
Yesterday, I dropped my 17 y.o. son and his (fairly) new girlfriend off at a theme park for the day while I went to work. I dawdled at Ikea on the way home to give them more time on their date, and then picked them up early evening. Driving the young girl home, I caught […]