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Do Widows Have to Exercise?
Widows are supposed to feel lousy, and have no energy. Everybody knows grief is ugly. Since it doesn’t matter how I look anymore, why should I push myself out the door, or sign up for a stinky gym?
Do you recognize my attitude? I had it for a couple of years after the death of my husband, and I gained about twenty pounds. Did that mak [...]
Happy New Year???

Has My Grief All Gone?
Today was a good day. I talked to my kids, and they are all fairly healthy and happy. Nothing in the house or car went boing or glub, glub, so that’s great. I worked all day on school projects, preparing ideas to teach my elementary kids how to find the main idea in a paragraph. Then we’ll work on discovering the same thing in a whole story. [...]
Whatever Helps on Coping With Grief
Ruby said I needed to get rid of the clothes in Robert’s closet. She got rid of her husband’s almost immediately after he died. She couldn’t bear looking at them anymore. I don’t blame her for that, but that was just not me.
I closed the door on Robert’s closet and hardly opened it for a year. I decided the jeans and plaid shirts were fine th [...]