Category: Health & Aging
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Me, Myself & I
Reading Time: 5 minutesThree Dog Night had a hit song in 1969 (ironically, the year I met Randy) that claimed, “one is the loneliest number that you’ll ever do.” You’d think that the song was about a relationship break-up or, as one writer put it, “a melancholy meditation on loneliness”. Nope. Harry Nilsson wrote the… Read more
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A True Celebration
Reading Time: 5 minutesWhat does it say about a newly minted widow who wants to dance at her husband’s Celebration of Life? Because that was me. I could say I don’t care what people say, but that’s not true. At the end of Randy’s Celebration of Life, the music video, The Great Adventure by Stephen… Read more
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Adventure Awaits
Reading Time: 5 minutesDo you ever look back on seemingly random and minor things in your life that somehow all line up and create, perhaps even far into the future, something significant and meaningful? It feels like so many little (some really little, like the stickers I’m about to tell you about) things that happened… Read more
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Alone
Reading Time: 5 minutesWhen Randy and I were still watching TV, we got hooked on a reality show for a short time called Alone. In it, so-called survivalists are dropped into some remote wilderness with nothing but a backpack (which contains a video camera, of course). Whoever lasts the longest without calling to be picked… Read more
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Life After A Death
Reading Time: 5 minutesFor those of you who might be new here, my beloved husband, Randy, to whom I’d been married 50 years, 5 months, 14 days, died two weeks ago today. On February 1 he went to the ER with some ocular disturbances coupled with some numbness in his right hand. Within hours, after… Read more
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They Say Grief is A Journey
Reading Time: 5 minutesAbout an hour and a half after I posted last week’s blog where my P.S. said Randy was knocking on heaven’s door that morning, he quietly and peacefully drew his last earthly breath. I’m glad St Peter, or whoever is in charge of gatekeeping up there, didn’t make him stand knocking for… Read more
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Every Day, Run-of-the-Mill Miracles
Reading Time: 5 minutesOver the past 4 years, as Randy has written posts for Our High Places, he often details what he calls God Winks. He and I first heard the term God Winks years and years ago when we became friends with a much older couple. Randy was still running our pressure washing service… Read more
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Welcome Home, Veteran Heroes
Reading Time: 5 minutesIn the book I’ve recommended several times on this blog, The Women by Kristin Hannah, there is a scene where the main character, Frankie, an Army Nurse, rotates back to the United States in 1969 after 2 tours in Vietnam. She is wearing her uniform. The Los Angeles airport is filled with… Read more
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A Deluge of Emotion
Reading Time: 6 minutesThe Honor Flight Randy and I were privileged to be selected for took place a week ago today. Since that day I’ve been racking my brain to think of a word to describe how overwhelmingly emotional it was. It is with 100% certainty I tell you I am still not recovered from… Read more
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The Cancer Life Rollercoaster
Reading Time: 5 minutesI’ve never liked roller coasters. I’ve ridden only a few by choice, and those were pretty tame considering some of the coasters open to the public in 2026. I could go off on a tangent here and tell you about roller coasters with names like Tormenta Rampaging Run, Wonder Woman Flight of… Read more