Luckily, my birthday this year was much better than my birthday was last year. Last year, I was only about a month out from my husband’s death, so needless to say, I wasn’t in much of a mood for celebrating. We had just lost our 19-year-old cat Hermione very suddenly…

We’ve had one ongoing struggle since losing my husband, the father of my kids. Perhaps not surprisingly, it reminds me of one of the greatest struggles I always had with my husband, too. My son does our cooking almost 100 percent of the time, just like his dad did. And…

I haven’t known what to write about here for a while. Nothing seems to be happening, yet everything is, and I don’t know how to talk about it. I guess the most notable thing is that I met with my neurologist for the first time in a couple of years…

I don’t even know what’s going on with me lately. I don’t know what my future holds. Once, this would have been a situation that filled me with tremendous anxiety. To not know for sure where I’m going to live or how I’m going to make my money six months…

I’ve come to a fairly major decision recently: I’m deciding to truly live again. I haven’t really allowed myself to live in the past year. If I’m honest, it’s actually been a whole lot longer than that. I was depressed for a long time, much longer than I want to…

I lost touch with my husband for a while and I didn’t know if he would visit me again. Fortunately, he came back and spent some time with me last night. As always before, he gave me a lot of comfort and a lot to consider. What he said I couldn’t sleep at…

I’ve been wondering what my next direction would be for my life path. I happened to find it by accident yesterday while reading an old story in The Atlantic: I’m going to become a night nanny. …

I’ve now made it to the one-year anniversary point after losing my soulmate. I have to say that this was a year of surprises and some (mostly unwanted) growth opportunities. I’d like to reflect a bit on some of what has happened over the course of this past year. The first months The…

The highways, especially around Dallas-Fort Worth, are exceptionally dangerous. The DFW area is especially bad for traffic deaths. Of the most populated areas in the country, it ranked second for traffic-related deaths, with more than 14 deaths for every 100,000 people. That’s not just for drivers, either; it’s even more…