Widow, Widower and Wisdom

If you are recently widowedor know of someone who is--you may find this article rather candid. I waited seventeen and a half years for God to bring to me the love of my life (and I was fifty years old), and after five and a half fantastic years, puff! She died!

Dinner With The Tongue

For many folks, it’s that dreaded time again. The Christmas holiday dinner with the extended family. The event that causes you to have to make a choice. A choice between seeing Mom’s happy smile because everyone came, or staying home so you don’t have to be around The Tongue this year.

Back in the day

There are those who are aware of the fact that women do most of the shopping for their family. Most people aren't aware of the problems these women have to cope with unless they are shared.

Thinking Out Loud

If you are counting down the days to Christmas and New Year festivities with dread, this is perfectly understandable. Your life has been turned upside down by the loss of your loved one, be it husband, wife, partner, or close family member or friend. At times the loss appears to be insurmountable.

How Would You Respond?

The little girl was seriously injured. There was also a fatality. This, because no one had yet invented the threelighted traffic signal. Until then, there was only a flag that would say stop or go. Another time, many women were locked inside a large New York City sewing room, their workplace.

This Holiday Season will NOT be the Same!

Whether the death occurred this year, or many years ago, the unavoidable sights, sounds, and smells of the holiday season trigger the painful emotions of grief. Those traditions of family togetherness and celebration will never be the same.

What Is Peter Pan Religion?

In the classic tale about “the boy who refused to grow up,” A.K.A. Peter Pan, we must look to ourselves. No, we can’t fly, nor can we duel with Captain Hook, but the comparison lies within the childlike nature of our hero. Peter liked adventure.

“Dodging Shadows”

Honestly guys, how much sense does dodging shadows make? Can shadows themselves inflict harm? Nope, and in the respect of inflicting actual harm, shadows are just like fear. Fear can make you dread and dodge, but fear itself cannot create the physical harm.

Thinking Out Loud

The house lights are twinkling, Christmas trees glimmer out of every front window, and joyous music fills the air, but your heart seems immune to the joy. As much as you want to, you can't feel the happiness this season used to bring. All you feel is—alone.

Exhaustion Is Not The Time To Make Heavy Decisions

We had been traveling nonstop for three straight weeks. It had been one different bed after another – and Renie is simply not someone who deals well with that scenario.