The loss I didn’t expect.

My husband of almost 50 years made a miraculous comeback! This blog is about our journey ahead and stumbling blocks in the road.

Aging can be lonely.

Does it have to be?

Blog instruction manual: If you want to read the blogs in chronological order, just click on my underlined name at the bottom of each chapter and scroll.

Chapter 70. A Sad Reminder of Aging

I guess there comes a time in any long-term relationship, especially one of 50+ years, when the aging process hits each of us in different ways.   For me, I noticed that the lines and wrinkles rehomed themselves in my face.  When I look at my legs, I see saggy, wrinkly skin instead of smooth, muscular limbs.  For…

Chapter 69. One Year Later.

We settled there some 48 years ago.  The half-acre property sitting in the middle of an urban area gave us all we needed:  space for our two cats and two dogs.  And it would ultimately give us the place where we would acquire and say good-bye to more cats, dogs. . . . among them our 7 beloved…

Chapter 68. Little Things.

Once a week I walk over to King Soopers to pick up a bouquet of lilies which, are, in my opinion, the best flowers because they 1) last a long time, 2) come with some buds already opened and others waiting for their turn, and 3) have a lovely pungent gingery odor.  This morning, I…

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