Category: Widowhood
Janus: The God of Widows
Three years ago, I blogged about “Looking Backward, Looking Forward,” grading myself on my 2017 New Year’s resolutions and sharing my resolutions for 2018. Writing annual resolutions was fairly new to me. For 46 years life revolved around husband and children, and I felt little need to set life…
130 Meals and Still Counting
If you are in Texas or another state that is opening up again, perhaps you have mixed feelings like I do. While I love the concept of dining out with family and friends, I have no confidence that it’s safe. To the contrary, I think May might turn out to…
100 Home-Cooked Meals and Still Counting
Today is Day 35 of mostly sheltering in place on the 15th floor of a large apartment complex in Dallas. Even with four takeout meals, I have prepared more than 100 meals at home alone in the kitchen. On Wednesday, March 18, I flew to Dallas with my son in…
Alone and Anxious or Depressed?
You aren’t the only one. A recent article in the Wall Street Journal, The Struggle to Cope With Depression, reports than “more than one-third of Americans say the pandemic is having ‘a serious impact’ on their mental health,” citing a March 25 survey from the American Psychiatric Association. Anxiety is…
Thank you, God
Thank you, God, for the gift of senses, for the joy we feel from what we see, hear, taste, smell, touch. But as always you give us free will. We can choose beauty or we can choose ugliness. At this time, oh God, may we choose the good and the…
Powerless and Needing Power
Are you as confused as I am about the day and the date? It’s all a blur and there is nothing to mark the passage of time except by the increasing daily numbers of coronavirus cases. People don’t go to work or school on weekdays; we don’t go out on…