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.
Repeating 2’s have long had meaning in my house. My husband’s birthday was the 22nd, my daughter met her current boyfriend on the 22nd, and my son was randomly assigned #22 on his high school varsity soccer team. We would see 22s on license plates, in the news, and in random movies and television shows. […]
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2016 has been a rough year so far. Today one of my favorite people on the planet was laid to rest. I’m wearing a pair of little angel earrings she made herself and it makes me feel she is near. My mother’s sister, Aunt J was Mom’s complete opposite. Mom was always so serious and […]
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While I’ve previously provided the Cliff Notes version of how I got here, I decided it was time to lay out a day-by-day outline of the two weeks my husband spent in the hospital before he ultimately passed away. Having a large family and lots of concerned friends who lived in another part of the […]
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Everywhere I turn, I’m reminded of my husband. Having spent 32 years together, it’s not surprising that his absence is now very keenly felt. But it goes deeper than that. He was my first, he was my last, he was my everything in between. We chose everything from furniture to clothes to groceries together. His […]
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Many Faces of Cheri G 