Truhal

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...

The other day I got a pedicure.  The pedicurist and I struck up a conversation and I mentioned my husband passed just three months ago.   She said, I'm so sorry then asked when I planned to...

God prepared me well in advance of my loss.  He told me a change was coming and gave me the signs that would occur before the change.  Now it's here.  Fourteen months ago I would have defined...

My husband died in March of this year.  At first I sat numb, wanting my old life back and when I realized I couldn't have it back, I decided to create a new one.  I literally threw out the old one,...

Why didn't I listen to my own advice?  I've been a widow for three months now.  Actually, it's going into the forth month.  I've changed.  I used to be a very private person, not sharing with...

We are all sinners.  True.  But most of us  try to do better every day.  We fail, and we get up and try to do better. This is in response to those who mention sin as something that occurs in our...

Life is short.  Even if you live to be 120, what does that compare to eternity in Heaven.  There is an ongoing discussion on DS about dating.  Basically the morals of dating.  I've had many years...

13 months.  13 months is all it took for my life to change.  It started with a warning, a whisper in my ear from God:  You will be alone very soon.  At the time I had a husband, a bird, a dog. ...

Two days ago:I was desperate.  I was standing in a store with a credit card and two bucks in my pocket.  I'd come here on a mission.  I couldn't take it any longer.  It had been two days.  Two...