Truhal

Whenever I am troubled by something, or need answers, I look to the past.  In this case in the form of Frederick Douglass, a man born to slavery.  True, there are differences in our lives and...

I've always belived that our loved ones can visit us in our dreams.  My mom did and now my husband.  In both cases, there was something undreamlike about the dream, a sort of reality mixed in with...

So I cut the salt out and found my blood pressure was going up whenever I was in clinicals.  This is back in the day when I was in nursing school.  I ended up dropping out of the whole program due...

She was there for me during some of the worst times in my life. She was always the greatest friend outside my husband.  And during the worst moments of my life, she made me feel good.It was 1994. ...

I looked at an apartment today and almost took it.  Then I remembered I need to wait 6 more monts before making any decision.  The way the housing market is now, I don't want to end up living...

Drove around and looked at some rental properties.

Back in the 80s my favorite television show was Battlestar Galactica.  I just loved Dirk Benidict as Starbuck.  Anyhow, there was an episode about a prison colony.  My memory of it is somewhat...

My husband lived only 59 years.  My father is alive at 82.  One never knows how long we have, but it got me to thinking.  Which is better:  59 good years or 82 years with the last years being...

Whenever I encounter difficult people, I try to understand why they're that way.  I imagine their lives and what shaped them into the person they are. Last week, yesterday, and today, I've had...

It's been 5 weeks since I moved in with my Dad.  I did it for him.  He's 82 and I felt he needed me.  Now I want to be totally selfish and leave.  The truth is, I'm so miserable here and I just...

Well, it's past midnight and officially the day I married the love of my life.  I'd almost forgotten it, because we never really got to celebrate it.  You see, my husband attended conventions every...

I brought the pots and pans in tonight.  At least some of them.  They'd been sitting in the trunk of my car because I hadn't been able to prepare a meal since DH passed back in March of this...

I lost my grandmother twenty years ago.  I lost my mother ten years later.  I lost my husband ten years later.  So every ten years I lose someone close it seems. It  has been difficult.  I was...

Woke up.  Watched a little television.  Put together my new bird cage.  Went shopping.  Talked to dad. Picked up something to eat.  Ordered food from a restaurant.  Washed my hair.  Wrote a...

My husband and I had a lovely life.  We were together for 18 years.  We were best friends.  We married, divorced, remarried, and stayed friends no matter what.  Back when I was single, we spent...