Category: Health & Aging
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Rest in Peace, Randy
Reading Time: 5 minutesLast Friday we laid Randy’s cremains to rest at Sarasota National Cemetery. The ceremony, with military honors including a three-gun salute, was beautiful, but somber and heart wrenching. Close to 50 people, some of whom were surprises to me, some who traveled a very long way to help lay him to rest,… Read more
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Morning Walks with Randy
Reading Time: 6 minutesI’ve been walking for more than 3 weeks now. It’s been good for me. And for 2 weeks I’ve been going to the community park near my home to walk around the lakes instead of on the blacktop up and down the boring street by my house. The best part is that,… Read more
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One Bite at a Time
Reading Time: 5 minutesLast week I wrote about all the stuff, mostly Randy’s, that no longer serves me. The idea for that post came from the widow and grief materials that bombard me daily on Facebook. Those algorithms really work. This week I saw several things that made an impact on me. I used to… Read more
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What No Longer Serves Me
Reading Time: 5 minutesI am really starting to miss Randy. Being alone in this house is a completely different experience than I’ve had for all of my life. Several of my friends still check on me every day. Some of their eyes glaze over when they ask what I did that day. I laughed when… Read more
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A Look Back and A Peek Forward
Reading Time: 5 minutesTomorrow, July 15, is the 5-year anniversary of the day we arrived in Florida. Lots and lots (and lots) happened in the last 5 years. My life today doesn’t resemble anything I imagined it would when we were driving from Wisconsin to a VRBO condo in Englewood, excited about new beginnings and… Read more
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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