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Yesterday I was able to help someone with my new language skills, and I found, to my surprise that it helped me also.Learning a language consumes time.  It forces you to leave grief behind and...

I turn the heat down to 60 degrees at night.  I shop at discount stores, buy sale items, clip coupons.  I don't shop for clothes.  I don't eat out as often as I used to.  I'm  on a budget.  I'm...

I took a class and got to chat in my new language.  So far I can understand what people are saying but am having difficulties stringing sentences together.  Spanish is so much of an easier language...

I've spent so much time working on my story that I forgot to journal.  So, I'm catching up today.  My subject: redefining happiness. I've had good and bad days recently.  I've had days were I've...

March 31, 2010 was the day my husband died.  I can't believe it's been nearly a year.  I used to say my husband was in heaven while I'm still walking through hell.  It's still true to a certain...

My 83 year old child just had another temper tantrum.

Looks like I'm moving forward.  I'm on a diet that's working, and have decided to consider the possibilities of someone in my future.  That's not to say that I'll marry again; that depends on God....

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...