Truhal

It's late and I'm looking at my dog.  My 15 year old dog who spent her entire life eating fruit and vegetables and high-quality dog food.  Now, with her advancing years, she's still walking well,...

During the day the rational me shows up.  She's savy, competent, smart, logical.  Late at night a differnt woman appears: She's needy, scared, and feels abandoned.  Since I'm a religious woman,...

Able to sit in house without a television or some other noise maker on.  Did this for four hours.  A whole day when I did not call my father.  Back to writing fanfiction and posting to my...

Thanks everyone who read and commented on my story.  It really helped to write it as I'm having some of those feelings myself.  It's like one moment you're fine and the next you're not.  Just...

Step 3 for me is getting back to writing.  It's a hobby for me.  Here's a little something I wrote just to vent.  The characters are fictional, the sentiment is real. Embracing InsanityBy...

Had lunch with friends today.  It wasn't as hard as I thought.  I'll keep doing things like that.  Somehow I have to find the way to breath again.

I made it through the funeral.  It achieved what I wanted it to: my stepdaughter recieved closure and comfort.  Not many relatives came, but those that did remininced and were sorry that they...

Today is the funeral.  After much thought, I've decided to spend only one hour there for the wake and the service follows.  He's being cremated so there is no need to go to the gravesite.  Thank...

It's not much, but I'm challenge when it comes to putting things together.   Took after my father.  Before I married, mom assembled everything.  I still remember sitting on the floor watching her...

What can I say: having a TIA changes your life. In case you don't know it, a TIA is a mini-stroke. The doctor said I had one a few weeks ago. Another doctor said it could have been a migrane. ...

It seems that things are changing so quickly. Take soap operas. They're becoming a thing of the past and that's sad. I really don't watch them, but there was a time in the 80s when the writers...

I met a widow today.  We were in a store, both shopping, and we struck up a conversation.  She mentioned that she'd lost her husband in April and that now everyone expected her to get over it--to...

The first year my husband died, I spent a lot of time thinking about the new normal and what it meant to me.  For nearly two decades, my life had an expectancy about it.  I knew I would see or talk...

It's been a difficult year.  I lost my husband in 2010.  Then I had the fight of my life with my father.  Dealing with both nearly took me over the edge.  And I did not know how I could put up...

I just watched a television program with senior citizens in physical contest with out of shape teens and twenty-somethings.  Those seniors could kick butt and actually won the bicycling and swimming...