Ever since I was a little girl, I loved December. I considered myself so lucky because I was born on December 15th just 10 days before Christmas, so I got double the presents, or so I thought at the time! ...
Today, I post bilingually for the first time. Hoy, escribo mi primer post bilingüe. I’ve just passed the 11-month mark. For a while, I thought I was doing fine—especially since I managed to get through the 23rd without shedding a tear. ...
I went for my Sunday walk on the industrial estate where I have a magnificent view of “Barrie’s rock”. 😊 When I walk alone, I always have my phone with me and listen to news or music. This particular Sunday, ...
Did you ever find a bird with a broken wing when you were a child? Do you remember holding it lovingly and putting it in a shoebox, watching how the poor thing struggled? How the vet said it might heal, ...
Even the significance behind numbers has changed. He passed away on December 23rd (2023) at 1:30 pm. Today it’s October 14th (2024), 8:30 am. It’s been 295 days, 18 hours and 30 minutes. The 23rd of every month is marked ...
Do you have the feeling it all happened too fast, that you seem to have been robbed of something precious? I feel terrible at times because he used to always tell me that I work too hard, that I should ...
Many of us had had previous relationships before we met our soulmates. Such was my case. I had been married for 18 years and then divorced for almost 15 when I dropped by a website, saw a picture and thought: ...
I went to my Pilates class and a song played. It hit me; I was unable to control it, so I just had to let it pass. I don’t know whether people around me caught on to what was happening, ...
Our battle started in March 2021. The first few months we were, as Barrie himself put it “in good spirits”. We did all the treatments, in his case chemo and radiotherapy. He seemed to have killed the monster. We considered ...
As I finished my first post, I was already thinking about the new one. Hope for Widows has given me much food for thought. I know that there are countless experts who have written on grief: the stages, how to ...