I recently saw this prompt online: “What was the last song that brought back a memory you hadn’t thought about in years?” Oddly enough, the night before seeing this prompt, I happened to click on my Apple Music app on my laptop and throw it on random and something that fit this prompt did come […]
Widowed Memories
Feliz Cumpleaños My Baby 🥳
My beautiful baby boy, mi chango peludo, mi pedacito de carne… Today, Wednesday, October 14, 2026, you are turning 18. A whole adult, they say. But as your sister keeps reminding you, your frontal lobe won’t be fully developed until you’re 25, so congratulations, you still have seven years left to blame your brain! 😂 […]
The Blind Leading the Blonde, Happy Birthday Quint!
For the past week here in Northeast Florida, we’ve had nothing but steady rain and down pours. Yesterday was the first day we could venture out and stay dry. We are not in the hurricane zone in the panhandle region, and I don’t think our soggy weather pattern is even related to that storm, now […]
Growth
We are having a true Indian Summer here in Southern Oregon with temps up into the 80s for a couple weeks now. I’m not complaining and trying to enjoy it while I can. I’ve been thinking about trying to squeeze one more camping trip in before the weather turns and was thinking about Umpqua Lighthouse […]
It’s been a year of Yin and Yang
shock & grief / hope ~ ups / downs ~ hurt feelings / kindness unexpected disappearances / lovely returns lots of tears / but also some laughter loneliness / community ~ isolation / travel I made it through all of those “firsts” since Jim died – and all of those memories of […]
100 Years, Honored With Love
My mother passed in February 2024. This Monday, October 5th would’ve marked her 100th birthday. Oh how I wish we could be celebrating that milestone and not just in spirit. My dad passed 11 months prior to her’s and I’m always grateful that she didn’t have to be a widow for too long. He […]
Happy National Black Dog Day! 🐕🦺
I am still not sure how we got so lucky. She came to us two days before our lives were forever changed, and I KNOW she is an angel in a dog’s body. Don’t ask me how I know this -because I don’t know- but tomorrow Thursday is National Black Dog Day. So this beauty […]
Missing Him Until My End- A Repost
Happy Monday. Emily is off with her widow crew and I hope they are having a wonderful time together, enjoying their connection and being in community. I have always loved this piece she wrote so I am sharing it with you today in her absence. ~Mary Moore Hughes We grieve because we love and […]
The Power of Keeping Our Memories
I recently watched the movie, “Forgotten Island!” I have been waiting all year to watch this!!! Forgotten Island is a Dreamworks animated movie set in the Philippines about two friends who travel to a mystical island, and encounter our culture’s mythological creatures – many of whom I have been told stories about since I was […]
Rolling on the River
This Monday, September 28th, would’ve been our 30th Wedding Anniversary. What a beautiful day it was spent with our guests on the River Queen on the Manasquan River in New Jersey. Today, while doing some cleaning out, I came upon a framed wedding photo in the drawer of a piece of furniture I am […]
Recalling My Sister
My sister’s birthday took place on September 22nd. She’ll be gone for four years this coming December. As far back as I can remember, my sister was unhappy. I’m not sure why, but I suspect her relationship with our mother was at least a contributing factor to my sister’s lifelong unhappiness. I can’t say with […]
This is the week …
Posting this blog 16 years to the day after Vern passed … and spending this important week here in Calgary, Canada, honoring both Vern’s and Jim’s passings. Vern died September 22, 2010 … Jim died September 26, 2025 I do find it rather amazing that my loss dates fall within the same week, as do […]