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.
Three months. That doesn’t seem like too long, does it? But when your world has been turned inside out and upside down and chaos has become normal, three months seems a lifetime. On the other hand, no time at all. I spend so much time in a fog that hours and days simply slip away […]
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During a recent conversation, my daughter told me that many of my recent postings were too dark and depressing, and she asked me lovingly to “knock it off”. It bothers her to know I am so sad. Initially, I thought she was right. Perhaps I needed to balance out the darkness with more light. Then […]
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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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You know those movie scenes where a couple, or a family, or a group of teenagers is happily riding along in a car and out of nowhere – WHAM! – their vehicle is struck by another? Flying glass, screeching tires, crunching metal. Lives turned upside down in an instant. Sudden, unexpected, intense. That’s what grief […]
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Many Faces of Cheri G 