Posted on October 4, 2007. Filed under: grief, widowhood | Tags: death goal setting, dream, Griefshare, hopes, moving on |
I am hardly an expert but I do know a thing or two more than I would like about endings and beginnings and about moving on. I spent a good deal of time closing up the rooms in the dreams of the future my late husband and I imagined together in what seems now to [...]
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Posted on September 19, 2007. Filed under: widowhood | Tags: moving on |
I have spent the better part of today going through stacks of papers, trying to decide what should be kept, what can be recycled, and what needs to be shredded. I think that shredding as an activity ranks right up there with monthly faculty meetings and cleaning the bathroom. Mind-numbing and faintly disgusting. But, until [...]
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Posted on July 16, 2007. Filed under: Grief Counseling and Groups, grief, widowhood | Tags: moving on, Sandy Searcy, victim mentality, W.E.T. |
The saying goes something like “life is what happens while you were making other plans”. One of those walks, talks and quacks like a duck cliches whose truth you can’t deny. Life doesn’t tolerate back seat drivers, and that is what most of us our. If you aren’t going to get into the driver’s seat [...]
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Posted on April 15, 2007. Filed under: Second Edition | Tags: moving on |
I have actually been working on a new entry on and off all day. It’s about soul mates. Something I don’t really believe in, which I think is almost heretical for a widowed person to say. But when have I ever followed the widow herd? Okay, maybe there were times when I did, but certainly [...]
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Posted on March 13, 2007. Filed under: Second Edition | Tags: grief, moving on, recoupled after widowhood |
The first edition of my blog lies abandoned and forgotten on MSN’s Spaces now. I began it in July of 2006 as a way to distract myself from the eruption of the dormant grief I had been too shell-shocked to experience in the early months following Will’s death that January. As time passed it became [...]
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