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.
One of the best / worst things about grief is that it has a way of bringing old memories to the surface. This can be a bittersweet and painful process, remembering both pleasant memories that can never be repeated and others best left buried. I’ve been trying to focus on the sweet anecdotes, the ones […]
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I’ve been thinking a lot recently about perception. Too many people are willing to accept their perception of a situation as reality. They take one snippet of time and create a scenario around it and call it “truth”. It happens to politicians, it happens to celebrities, and it happens to us “regular” people, too. My […]
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This is college commencement season for many people, myself included. I was supposed to be (finally) crossing the stage to receive my Bachelor of Arts in Psychology, with Forensic Focus. It was such a long time in coming because right out of high school, I attended for two full years, then stopped. I didn’t drop […]
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I had my first real dream of my husband last night since his passing. I’ve been waiting for it to happen, and have honestly felt somewhat slighted that he hadn’t visited yet. Some nights, I fall asleep talking to him and asking, begging, him to speak to me in my dreams. I desperately miss him […]
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Many Faces of Cheri G 