Once again, I’ve been thinking bout the past. I know everyone always says, the past is the past, and I get that, but the past has also made me what I am today. Everything I’ve ever done has led right to this moment in time. Sometimes, it’s only through looking back, that you have realizations […]
The Last Thanksgiving
(Reposting from 2023, since every Thanksgiving I can’t help but this of this last one with Mario. Actual Thanksgiving this year I just spent a few hours with my mom and had leftovers from the Friendsgiving spread I did on Wednesday.) Trigger alerts for: addiction, depression, and bitter sweet holiday memories. The last Thanksgiving that […]
249 Weeks
I’m still processing the grief of losing my cat and I’ve just been uninspired to write this week, so it’s going to be one those freeform type of posts that jump from topic to topic. First, I find myself saying, “I can’t believe how fast this …. week, month, year….” Has gone by way too […]
The Other Side of Love is Loss
My heart took another hit November 8th, 2025 having to say a final goodbye to my beloved cat, Juno. Deep down, I knew Juno’s time was short. It’s one of those tough things about being very intuitive. No “gift” like that comes without a price. I knew that whatever was going on with her was […]
Finding a Way to Grow
I had an appointment with a local acupuncturist in town. My main acupuncturist (yes, I have 2) is an hour away and I’d been meaning to schedule with the local one since we trade services occasionally. It had been awhile since I’d been to her office. When I got out of the Jeep, I almost […]
The Story of a Photo
I happened to be going through some old photos and stumbled on one from when we first moved to Oregon. It’s funny how images can act as little time travel devices sometimes, putting you right back to the moment it was taken. The year was 2007. Hard to believe that was now 18 years ago. […]
Shards of Glass
Years ago, our local area recycled glass (they stopped doing that awhile back). It was picked up in the typical, blue recycle bin on the same day trash pick up happened. Normally, we wouldn’t have produced much glass to recycle… maybe a jam or honey jar, a salad dressing bottle here and there, that sort […]
My Favorite Time of Year
There is at least one thing I like about every season of the year … snow in the mountains during the winter, the flowers in spring, the warm summer days … but with the fall, I like it ALL … the colors, the crispness in the air, Halloween, early sunsets, getting to wear all of […]
Contacting Spirits
Now that it’s October and we’re officially into “spooky season”, what better time than to talk about contacting spirits! Often a widowed person (or really anyone who’s lost a loved one) may ask if there is a way to contact the spirit of their loved one. To me, it’s not an unusual question. It’s a […]
Advice for the newly widowed …
I started writing here at Widow’s Voice as part of my own journey in this unfortunate “club”. But I also write so that other widowed people may stumble on these ramblings and potentially find some sort of solace or help or at least know that they’re not alone in what they’re going through (even though […]
That is the roller coaster that is life.
Whoever first coined the phrase, “life is like a roller coaster”, really was spot on. It’s all there – anticipation, regret, excitement, anxiety, smooth sailing, times when you feel like you’ll fly off track, and of course, all the peaks and valleys. What goes up, must come down and what goes down goes up again. […]
Haunted Houses
Last Friday, a friend and I went down to a local restaurant that’s located inside a historic Victorian house originally built in 1891. It also happens to be 2 doors down from the 1895 Queen Anne style cottage Mario and I purchased and renovated (and that my friend still rents from me). We’d been there […]