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GET
A LIFE!™ COLUMNS
A
NEW YEAR
Some
greet a new year with optimism, eager to experience new tastes,
new scenes, new ideas. These folks see life as an ever-unfolding
adventure generously laced with opportunities for learning
and growth. <read more>
AFTER
THE HONEYMOON
Now that I’ve had a love of my own, like Anna
sings about in the musical classic, “The King and I,”
and with which I whole heartedly identify, more than ever
I want to see people content in their relationships and/or
marriages. <read more>
CHANGING
A LIFE
Since that unrecorded time when human beings began
having relationships, and long before highway crews leaned
on shovels beyond the “Men At Work” signs, there
have been people throwing up roadblocks to prevent happiness
from ruining their misery.
<read more>
A
MEMORIAL
There is no subtle way to lead into what I need
to write.
A little
before midnight on Saturday evening, the 21st of January at
a "big band" dance, immediately following two swing
numbers, my husband looked at me and said, "I'm feeling
dizzy," swayed slightly and collapsed onto the dance
floor. <read more>
FEELINGS
OF LOSS
Recovering from the sudden fatal collapse of my
husband in the third week of January 1995 meant that I had
to deal with loss. Looking back I know the shock was akin
to the springing of a trapdoor: my world fell away.
<read more>
CLOSURE
VS ACCEPTANCE
For what was beginning to feel like forever, I’d
been waiting for closure to occur as the crowning achievement
of mourning the loss of my beloved husband. <read
more>
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