Coming back to yourself
Lorena
Trauma and grief can make you forget who you are. For 100 days, I woke up, I made coffee, I drove to the hospital an hour away, I spent the…
Personal thoughts
Playing a poor hand, well
“Life is not always a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.” – Jack London I have thought long and hard since, what, just yesterday…
Where the Magic Happens
In March, I went to Walt Disney World for the first time since Tim died. The first time since Heath died. I’d been to Disney Springs and to a couple…
Grief isn’t sadness, it’s exhaustion
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 kind of go, “huh, why…
What is today?
No, really. What day of the week is it? Because I’ve been convinced all day that it was Sunday. Even though I watched TV with Ginny and Sharon this morning,…
More catching up
About exactly one year ago, minus about four hours as I’m writing this, I got that phone call. Everything I think I want to say about that night, I said…
What are you willing to tolerate?
Like a journal, these posts are a place for me to be more honest about what was happening than I was on Facebook, or Caring Bridge, at that time. Some…
Why am I writing all this stuff about Tim, anyway?
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 make you wonder. Why? I…
Welcome back?
Nothing quite showed me that I missed my little blog here like almost losing my little blog. A year ago – wait, more than a year ago now – I…
Smart Goals
I told someone I was thinking of listing out the things I wanted to make sure I get done in 2020, and they were like, “ugh, that sounds way too…
Begin as you mean to go on
I have a friend who says “begin as you mean to go on” at the beginning of the year; in other words, start January 1st with what you’d like to…
When you’re ready we can share the wine (call me)
Recently I was talking to a friend about social media and how I present myself – a topic that I actually talk to a LOT of friends about because I’m…