driveler

Ok folks this is a new experience for me, journaling for other people to read.  Oh I have done a bit of journalling through the years, but it was always very private stuff.  I will have to be more...

Just returned home from a nice holiday visit with family. I enjoyed it very much! I have decided that part of the secret to my enjoying Christmas these days is that I no longer have any...

Wow! I went back to work nearly a month ago and just have not had much time to keep up with anyone here, feeling very distant from you all.  It seems unless someone messages me personally I just...

Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water.......!Or better yet.....Just when you think you are doing fine....!Ok that may be a bit dramatic, but... I really am doing well, emotionally...

jjjjjjjjjJust to let you know, if you are thinking I have gotten sucked into a black hole, I will be out of town and away from the computer for about a week, I will leave on Wednesday.  There was a...

Ok, it is really not about any of those three things, but....I got your attention didn't I?Well, I guess if you insist we could talk about those things.... let me see. Drugs, I don't know too much...

Subtitle:   Silly Little GoalsToday I intend to: Put together computer cartPut together bathroom shelving unitCall clinic for refill.Run dishwasher at least onceBurn trashPaint fingernailsAttend...

Ok, I am trying to decide if I like October or not. 26 years ago in October I met my late husband, 22 years ago in October I married him.    Oh yes, I LOVE October! 39 years ago in October,...

Ok, so I was a good girl and when I read something this morning on the discussion board that really bothered me, I came here to my journal and vented about it.   Did not want to unduly upset...

You know, they say simple pleasures are the best, and it is true. I have a good friend who used to work with me.  He is divorced and has custody of his kids.  He is now unable to work because of a...

Most of us have probably heard something along the lines of "Most of the things people spend their time worrying about never happen anyway"Well, guess what!  Sometimes they do!Most of my life I...

I am trying to think back to my first year of grieving in case anything I experienced might be of some help to anyone here.  I know we all have to do what works for us, but sometimes just knowing...

Less than a month after Alan (my husband) died my little sister gave birth to her daughter.  She already had two sons whom I adore.  My whole family lives at least 500 miles away so it was a little...

My late husband had been telling me for the past several years that if anything happened to him that I should look to his cousins for help.  We were never blessed with children, so it was just the...

I  am still figuring out this website at all of its features and format, the following was posted as my profile, but ti was fairly long for that spot so I moved it here. I lost my husband of 19...