And Sometimes You Stand Alone I taught school for 30 years, all different levels at 4 different buildings—all positions I took on, willingly, meaning I was never involuntarily transferred. I taught in both junior and senior high schools. Lord, I even taught elementary art for a while, sitting at those little tables with kindergartners, cutting […]
Alone…So So Alone… The holidays are always tough for me (and for many others with whom I sympathize). When my second husband died, on New Year’s Day, 1986, it was as if I sat in a minefield, smoke clearing all about… stunned I was still alive. It had been a terrible two years….two years that […]
“Bob”–A Hurricane By Any Other Name In June of that year, my fiancée and I bought our home. It had been 3 years since my 2nd husband died of cancer that went the route–lung…bone…brain. My fiancee was a widower whose wife died of breast cancer. This would be our new beginning. We’d gone ahead with […]