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Memorial Day is this month, and it comes every year with many...
Saturday, July 1, 1995 on the Caribbean island of Antigua at 10:00...
With the Holiday season fast approaching, and everyone you know, and wish you didn’t, is making merry… While you, the...
It’s the holiday season, whoop dee doo, and you the newly widowed find yourself engulfed in mistletoe and smiling faces. Everyone’s singing a happy tune - Everyone but you -...
Happy Anniversary Gary….....today would have made 19 years!! I am so thankful...
Where to begin….I feel like I’ve told this story so many times but each time I can’t portray the full...
This will be my first year without my husband. After 20 years of marriage, it’s painful. This is the time of year when we are usually getting dressed up to go to Christmas parties… the time of year when he takes out the ladder to hang Christmas lights on our...
Traditions can be beautiful; yet, when emotionally laden they can become intensely...
The holidays have a way of magnifying our loss and can be a difficult and confusing time of year. “What to do? How to act? How to wake up and...
Happy New Year! Yeah, I know. You’re thinking what’s with this writer? Life sucks without Him by your side. How dare she use the H word and wish me a Happy New Year. Well, I feel your pain. Really, I do, because I am a widow, too. But, I’m here...
When I was a kid, my family had the same Christmas every year. The packages under the tree changed…the tree...
I found out that I was pregnant in October, soon after my...
As the holidays approached this year I couldn’t help but be sad....
Valentine’s Day 2009 is approaching, and I can’t help but hold back...