Truhal

I'm just back from shopping and realized something:  It's a choice that I've made to remain single.  I don't have to do it. This ephiphany came while shopping, noticing all the couples around...

A few years back I was taking a psychology course when my professor asked a young student if he knew who Cary Grant was.  No, the student exclaimed.  The young man was about 19, far too young to...

They say I'm losing weight.  I say they because I have no idea because this time I did something different: I threw away my scale.  In the past I found myself celebrating my weight loss by...

My husband died March 31, 2010.  It's also the day the music died for me.  He was a great music fan, listening for hours. But after he died, I just couldn't listen anymore.  I've had months of...

The bellys are stuffed, the dishes washed, and Christmas dinner is over.  Yes, I made it through my first Christmas without my husband.   It was a great day, cold, with two inches of fresh...

It's 4:14.  Right now I'm at a store with my husband.  We're looking for Stuffing mixes.  In another half hour, we'll realize that this store ran out. We'll ditch the cart and head out to another...

I've never felt my husband's presence.  Once he left this earth, he went to Heaven.  I'm happy for him and sad for myself, but I would never want him to come back here to this horrible place called...

If  I had a dime for everytime someone said, God won't give you more than you can bear, I'd be rich.So I was thinking about this today.  So many of us, in so much pain, and a lot of us believe that...

I'm having a blessed day.  I say blessed now, instead of I'm good.  Or I'm doing well because these conditions change.  One moment I'm feeling good, the next, I'm not.  Still, I'm blessed every...

I made stuffing tonight and ate out of the spoon I cooked with, dipping it back in the bowl for several servings.  Sounds strange, doesn't it?  I'm one of those clean cooks who would never think of...

How I long to listen to some nice 1960s music.  It was my husband's favorite decade for music.  He even had his own band.  I love the 60s too.  Always have, listening to music from that period...

I'm 54, not a young woman.  I don't mind when people tell me that I'm not young, that I'm a senior citizen.  I am.  It's a fact.  So imagine my horror at what just happened.The other day I took...

I'm a fan of news radio.  I listen to it endlessly, sometimes hearing the same news item reported twice in a single hour.  Today, I made a discovery--I'm listening to news radio in order to avoid...

Bad cold: stuffy nose, coughing, sneezing, aches and pain, but it's just a normal day in many ways.  It's the new normal--I must take care of myself now.  So earlier today, I turned on the...

When I think of the word suicide I picture a person who wants to kill themselves due to depression or other problems.  But what about the person who simply wants to go to Heaven.  A person who...