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 81. What I’ve Learned about Myself

I have to say that over the years I haven’t given myself much thought.  A door opened, I walked through.  Met a person I liked, hoped they liked me back.  I fell into a career quite by accident and it worked out.  Very well.  I loved every minute of 50+ years in the nonprofit sector with 10 as a lobbyist.  …

Chapter 80. My Brain.

My brain has always been my favorite organ.  I love its quirkiness, its ability to continually ask questions, forcing me to research answers.   When I was young, my parents advised me to keep my brain in check. “Men don’t like women who are smarter than they are.”  Ah, the ‘60s.  The good old days. I didn’t take their…

Chapter 79. The Chabad

I’m not a religious person but I have met God.  It happened to me while I was in Rwanda.  We had climbed a volcano to sit with a gorilla family.    It was, for me, one of those moments in life that are barely explainable.  At the time, I wasn’t thinking I had found anything spectacular but weeks and months…

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