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...
Monday Musings 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... Read More
Navel Gazing The Wrapup (a mental health journey in seven parts) Posted By Lorena Week #7 (09/19-09/25) FINALLY, A FULL DIAGNOSIS. I met with my doctor yesterday to get the results of the full Creyos test; she sent me... Read More
Navel Gazing Six Weeks on New Brain Meds (continued) Posted By Lorena Week #3 (08/22-08/28) This week I helped June with her computer. It was a little complicated because David was buying the computer out in the... Read More
Navel Gazing Six weeks on new brain meds Posted By Lorena The result of the test is that I do have ADHD. But… just a little. Like, I barely scored on the scale for positive. More... Read More
Navel Gazing What’s your damage, Heather? Posted By Lorena While I was waiting for the results of the test, I played a little game. I wrote down some of the things I consider symptoms;... Read More
Navel Gazing Let’s talk about Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder Posted By Lorena Back in … Late May? Early June? My doctor sent out an email saying they were starting to do this in-office test thing, to test... Read More
Navel Gazing Let’s talk about Anxiety Posted By Lorena I've always been anxious. I never wanted to be, I don't enjoy it, it's definitely not something I wake up in the morning and think... Read More
Navel Gazing Too many forks and not enough spoons Posted By Lorena CW: death, grief, widowhood, mental health Dear Tim; A couple of weeks after you died, I was putting clean silverware away, and I had a... Read More
Navel Gazing Grief isn’t sadness, it’s exhaustion Posted By Lorena Google has P A G E S of hits when you search for grief and exhaustion. I know this because every couple of months I... Read More
Monday Musings Rituals Posted By Lorena What ordinary rituals did your family have? Perhaps you always got ice cream after baseball games, or went fishing on Sundays. Do you feel like... Read More
Letters to Tim Sometimes it’s still weird Posted By Lorena Dear Timmy Sean; Sometimes it's still weird. Sometimes I still have moments when I forget that you've died - surely we just had a fight,... Read More
Monday Musings Beginnings Posted By Lorena Recall a time in your life when you made a fresh start. How did your life change? Well, there was the time that I moved... Read More