“Hey, is Daddy copying me?” “When I grow up I want to be just a silly as them…wait, I am!” “Grandma loves me.” “That’s my Grandma under that hat.” “I don’t remember this restaurant.” “I think I like this place!”…
We got home from Aruba last night and not a moment too soon to watch all the shows I had tivoed. My plan was to unpack immediately but “Desperate Housewives”and “Medium” was calling to me, similar to the way Jimmy …
I’m writing this from Aruba. I know, poor me…sun, beach, pool, casino…Went today with Jax, Glenn, Skylar and Doug, something Jimmy and I talked about doing and probably this would have been the year. In many ways it’s a good …
I just took the sheets out of the dryer. They were still warm and as I folded them I remembered at the very beginning of our marriage 22 year old Jimmy would iron my side of the bed to make …
In our empty nest, dinner time was a free for all. Jimmy and I behaved exactly the opposite of the good manners we stressed to our growing kids. We talked with our mouths full, interrupted each other and often didn’t …
It’s not like we never talked about death. We did. Jimmy concluded that he would go first and he had facts to back him up. “First of all, I’m a man. Minus me seven years right there. Second, you probably …
I stare at women and wonder if they’re married. Everyone needs a hobby. I stood behind a woman at Duncan Donuts the other day and she was so annoyingly bubbly I knew I’d see a ring on her finger. As …
I took down my 2006 wall calendar today and I read all the notations I had scribbled in each little square beginning with January. Clueless me, innocent me, poor widow me was completely blind to what was to come. I …
The holiday I dreaded is over and I feel sadder than I have in weeks. Today it hit me that I didn’t only need to get through this Christmas without Jimmy. This is forever. I need to get through all …