single parenting Archives - Colleen Kelly Mellor: I Write of Heroes

January 5, 2022

“Alone..So So Alone”

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 […]

September 3, 2021

2nd Leave of Absence: “Fluffernutters for 3”

“Fluffernutters for 3” At 41 years of age, I was a widow with 2 daughters, 15 and 5. We’d endured 2-years of my husband’s terrible terminal illness. After 6 months of being hospitalized, he died on New Years Day, January 1st, 1986, the same morning a yard maintenance guy called to demand $50.00 from me […]

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March 4, 2017

I Embark on a Letter-Writing Campaign

My grandsons (3 of them) are as far away (in Seattle) as they can be from Grandpa and me, so what do I do? I write letters to them, including photos. I kind of know what will interest them…and always include humor. I will be speaking about this and a whole lot more in my […]

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