Posted on February 14, 2008. Filed under: Seconds, anniversaries, love, poetry, remarriage | Tags: love, marriage, my husband, Valentine's poems |
A Valentine for My Husband, Rob
Every woman needs a Sasquatch of her own
Life being incomplete without one
Earth signs are best
but at least born in an Oxen year
Able to shoulder all manner of burden
Physical and Emotional
Soft
but with firm and unyielding flesh
and principles
Impish, teasing,
able to giggle and explain (nearly) everything
Confident of being able to do (nearly) anything
Beacon [...]
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Posted on December 29, 2007. Filed under: grief | Tags: marriage |
My widow friend, Andrea, in Texas recently posted a quote from a movie that sums up better than I have ever been able to what it is that goes missing from our lives when we lose our spouses.
”We need a witness to our lives. There’s a billion people on the planet, what does any one [...]
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Posted on November 15, 2007. Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: marriage, relationships |
Here in Alberta licensing is out-sourced. The provincial governments allow private businesses, like insurance companies, to set up outlets in towns and cities and they handle the paperwork and fees. These businesses handle all types of licensing from marriage to driver’s to hunting/fishing to animals. Because of this, there is often quite a lengthy wait [...]
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Posted on October 12, 2007. Filed under: widowhood | Tags: chapter two, marriage, relationships |
Today marks the 201st entry on my original version of this blog (see link below). I began blogging on Tuesday, March 13th of this year, just a few days before Rob arrived from Alberta for our trip to Devil’s Den in Arkansas. Just six day before he asked me to marry him. In some ways [...]
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