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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...

I have become something my husband never knew: a 54 year old woman.  Yes, today is my birthday, and with it comes the reality that I've taken another step away from the past, away from my husband...

I have a friend who is angry and bitter about her divorce.  I have relatives who never found the right guy.  I have friends and family who found the wrong guy and lived in misery.  Then there's...

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It's hard, but I tried to see things from my father's perspective and it wasn't pretty. What if I were 83 and suddenly found myself dependent on someone else? All your life you've been...

I read this story in the newspaper about a man and woman asleep in bed when this car plowed through the wall, killing the woman and injurying  the man.  The man's injuries were mild, but I could...

It's a hard thing to do.  I'm sitting here, wondering if everything is okay, literally looking at the telephone.  I haven't spoken to my father since Wednesday and today is Friday.  It's hard. ...

I've come to think that no matter when we lose a person, it's a shock.  It surprises us that a person with whom we built a life can simply be gone.  I had plenty of time to prepare for the passing...

After all the invites and plans, I've decided to have Thanksgiving alone.  I've got to be at work exceptionally early, and frankly, I'm not feeling that great.  So it's my bird and I and a great...