December 22, 2025 When my husband died, I died too. Not in the same sense, of course, but the life and love I had known for 52 years were gone in an instant. I was lost. I didn’t know what to do or how to go on without him. And yet I did, whether I… Continue reading A Quiet Grief
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The Patched Dishcloth
December 20, 2025 One day, long after I was married and had children of my own, I was at my mother’s house, cooking and doing dishes as we prepared for a family dinner. I reached into the drawer where she kept her dishcloths and towels. A scrap of multicolored terrycloth with white stitching caught my… Continue reading The Patched Dishcloth
This Christmas
December 25, 2025 This holiday season of 2025 is the first one since Carl passed away three years ago that I didn’t long to make it be something that it can never be again. And it is okay. I was standing at the kitchen sink looking out at my neighbor’s Christmas lights when that thought… Continue reading This Christmas
Through My Eyes, Gently 