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 past and present collided this week. Perhaps “collided” is too strong a word, because it implies force or an impact. When I think of a collision, I see destruction and violence. What happened to me wasn’t violent or destructive, but no less powerful. This is a rough time of year for me. Of course […]
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Some days are better than others. That’s the simplest explanation. There are days when I can look back at the life I had with A and smile at all of the amazing memories we made. I look at our three wonderful children and remember how proud of them he was, how excited he was for […]
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I’m fairly certain most people have at least a working knowledge of the Five Stages of Grief (or Seven, depending on which school of thought you subscribe to). I know it was something I studied in an early Psychology class in college many moons ago, but as I was young and had been fairly protected […]
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Each day that passes brings me further from the only life I knew. And the only man I wanted to spend it with. On my way to work this morning, I started thinking about all the things I missed from that life. Some of the things are simple, some are silly, and some are quite […]
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Many Faces of Cheri G 