As many of you know, I am doing quite well with my grief. I mean, as well as somebody can with something like that. But there are still those times, those gut-wrenching moments that get me. And I have accepted that these will probably always happen but I also think it’s good to talk about them. To let them go as you share how you felt and dealt with it. “Every time you tell your story, it becomes part of the community you’re telling it to and you become less alone with it,” I said this in the AMA (Ask Me Anything) I did on Sunday night (all questions and…
-
-
Surviving Widowhood – My First Year
You might notice in the menu of this blog an option that says, ‘surviving widowhood.’ If you click on it, you will be taken to the place I went to in my first year to let some of my raw feelings out. My raw pain. My desperate attempt to reach out to the ether and find my husband. I didn’t write in it all that much but when I did, I let out my pain. It helped a lot. The first year is hard in so many ways but the one that is the worst for somebody who likes to write is that it is hard to concentrate long enough…
-
We are never finished…
This is the story of a widow who is using what she learned in her grief, in the destruction of the life she knew, to change that life. To change her world. I feel like, for me, the best way to honor my husband, the loss of my best friend, my grief, the tremendous pain and the hope and beauty I now see in this warped yet wonderful world is to jump feet first into everything I have always wanted to do but either thought I couldn’t do it or felt it was too late. I want to try stand up comedy. I want to get good at the violin again.…
