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.
The last few weeks have been highly emotional ones and I’ve had no time at all to blog. My husband’s Celebration of Life service was this past weekend and I spent days working on a photo slideshow and a tribute speech. As the memories surfaced, I filed them away, my intention to come back after […]
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Have you ever seen Batty (voiced by Robin Williams) in FernGully, the Last Rainforest? He’s a bat that escaped from a lab where humans tested the effects of electric shock on him. (Yes, yes, I know it sounds ridiculous, but it’s a kid’s animated film.) Batty’s brain doesn’t exactly work correctly, and he often changes […]
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[This is an extremely personal, humiliating story and I’m hesitant and embarrassed to tell it. Yet I feel compelled to, because it shows what an incredible man my husband was, and the whole world should know what true love looks like.] Have you ever wondered what true love looks like in action? This morning I […]
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If you’ve noticed that I’ve been MIA for a few days, it’s because I’ve had an emotionally exhausting weekend going through old pictures, cards and letters. It was almost all I could do to just get through the day. It simultaneously warms and breaks my heart to see our lives in photographs and words of […]
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Many Faces of Cheri G 