living alone – The Widow Woman

A New Chapter

No, not the writing kind of chapter. A life-altering event kind of chapter. The kind of chapter that happens when you lose […]

Pack your bags and grab your passports because I am taking you on an epic adventure that will include Day of the […]

Last week it was said that Dallas became a war zone, if weapons of mass destruction were tree limbs, power outages, and […]

Cleaning out some old folders in my desk I came across this essay I wrote in 1992, pre-Lasik, pre-cataracts, when I was […]

I confess. I love a well-placed truly, really, apparently, and only in my writing. Adverbs are important parts of our language. They […]

Courtesy, civility, manners, and all the other niceties that exist to make the world a kinder, gentler place in which to live […]

I love a good mnemonic (you know, the memory device we use to help us remember things.) Like the acrostic HOMES for […]

There’s an old movie with Burt Reynolds and Candace Bergen called Starting Over that was a cult favorite of mine. In it […]

It’s Spring at the Widow Woman’s house and bunnies have laid eggs everywhere. You know I love a good holiday as it […]

It’s been a month of anniversaries all of which converge here. Five years have passed since Scott died and two years have […]