One year, eight months, 16 days Posted By Lorena I've been a widow now for one year, eight months, and sixteen days. Twenty months and two weeks, if you call it by the way...
Dear Tim; who were you, even? Posted By Lorena CW: grief, confusion, anger, you know, all that stuff that comes with death of a spouse and being a widow. Dear Tim; Sometimes I wonder......
What it’s like to advertise as a small, one person, maker/artist/craft business Posted By Lorena In short? A f'in nightmare. Print advertising seems like it's hardly worth mentioning. I'd love to be able to afford to advertise in my favorite...
This Week in Vacation Planning (10/22/23) Posted By Lorena At this point the dates for my vacation next year have changed so many times, I've started not even telling my friends with whom I...
Tim Interrupted January 20, 2022 Posted By Lorena Let's see... what happened this day? Sharon got here, in the evening, so I went over to Denise and Tarrant's to hang out with everyone.... Read More
Tim Interrupted January 19, 2022 Posted By Lorena This was a hard day. Not bad, I mean, compared to a lot of other things that happened, but just ... hard. I had a... Read More
Home and Garden Before and middle (that’s right; not “after”) Posted By Lorena And now, in one place, a few before-and-afters. Well, honestly, not even a before and after, more like a before and middle, because we're not... Read More
Tim Interrupted January 18, 2022 Posted By Lorena Here's what I wrote on Facebook, which was exactly the same as what I sent to family that day. Just before the lights went out... Read More
Tim Interrupted January 17, 2022 Posted By Lorena It looks like most of what I wrote in my notes to family, I also just put directly on Facebook. I am an old woman... Read More
Pets The one about Ripley Paprika Posted By Lorena I was going to do a much longer blog post about this later, after this housework is completed this weekend, and post briefly on Facebook,... Read More
Tim Interrupted January 16, 2022 Posted By Lorena Huh. I don't really remember much about this day, either. I must have been really stressed out and anxious, or something? For my memory to... Read More
Tim Interrupted January 15, 2022 Posted By Lorena I posted this first little snippet when I posted about the 14th, but here it is again, just to keep everything together. And the rest... Read More
Tim Interrupted January 14, 2022 Posted By Lorena January Fourteenth... or, what a few of us took to calling "ECMO Day." In all of the bad days we'd had so far, even days... Read More
Souvenirs Why am I writing all this stuff about Tim, anyway? Posted By Lorena If y'all haven't already been asking yourselves why it is exactly that I'm rehashing all of this, why I'm rewriting it, tomorrow's post will really... Read More
Tim Interrupted January 12 & 13, 2022 Posted By Lorena I'm putting these days in together, because they were pretty interchangeable, and the next day, the 14th, was one of the worst days. And I... Read More
Tim Interrupted January 11, 2022 Posted By Lorena It's so adorable that I was so hopeful in this post. Oh, you sweet summer child. Reading back on these as I post them here... Read More