Monthly Archives: December 2019

I have actually been dreading this post for the past two weeks.  The holidays, specifically Christmas, what a really complicated subject in the grief journey.  Hold tight and bear with me as this post may turn out to be an utter mess, as I vomit profusely, and undoubtedly irratically onto the perverbial page. I’d like toContinue reading “Fa, la, la, la, la, and all that goes away…”

August 23, 2012, my birthday and a little over six months since my husband’s passing, I declared it to be the Year of Jennifer.  As I have stated, I hated the new normal and was dead set on picking myself up and forging a new path.  With this new me, I became adorned with aContinue reading ““What’s up with the tiara, are you special or something?””

“You will never be the same again…”  You hear that, but what do you think about it really?  Of course there are events in your life that have lifelong impact, like the birth of a child, a wedding, the death of a loved-one, etc….   These are life-changing events that will impact day-to-day forever…all true.Continue reading “I don’t recognize this person, who am I?”

Before I jump way ahead of myself, let’s define the word widow, dictionary.com defines it as such: widow – (noun) a woman who has lost her spouse by death and has not remarried. There you go, basic, simple, and so totally wrong.  Therein lies my problem.  Does re-marrying make my first husband come back?  DoesContinue reading “The term “widow””