2007 Nov … Life continued …. Ron had died on September 7th and I remember marking the turn of the calendar on November 1st, writing in my journal, “So ends the “Last Month” period. No longer do I say that Read more…
2007 Oct … It’s now just over five weeks since Ron died. Time is still measured by how many days and weeks have passed … I was feeling good about how I was managing my grief with my new spiritual Read more…
2007 Oct … It was about a month or so after my husband, Ron, died. Although I had come to understand by this point that we are souls having a human experience and not the other way around, I was Read more…
Final Gifts: Understanding the Special Awareness, Needs, and Communications of the Dying AUTHOR: Maggie Callanan and Patricia Kelley PUBLISHED: 1992 MY COMMENTS: An excellent book written by two hospice nurses. It helps the reader understand the special awareness, needs, and Read more…
September 6th, 2007 “Don’t die! Not now, not in the hallway with all these people going by … please don’t die!” His chest started to move once again … shallow, but I could see it. The nurses pushed the gurney Read more…
The Start of My Spiritual Journey … December 2004 I recall the specific day, the specific discussion, that I mark as the “start” of my spiritual journey. I was a partner in a local business systems consulting firm. I had Read more…
How much is “enough”? Before Ron was diagnosed with cancer in December 2005, we’d been talking about our retirement plans for years. Due to a variety of circumstances, Ron had retired some years earlier. But I was still working away Read more…
Okay, what now? So, it’s spring 2006, we’ve made the decision to move and I’ve given my notice to my business partners. We decided the move to Fairwinds was on, but what exactly does that mean? Where are we going Read more…
What was I thinking??? The evening of June 21st, 2007, hauling an overflowing load of stuff that didn’t make it on the moving van, we pulled up to our new house in Fairwinds and … OMG! Hah! As a project Read more…
Thanks for the heads-up We muddled our way through the rest of that summer, in 2007. I appreciated having had the advance warning from the medium about my trip. By the date I was scheduled to fly, there was absolutely Read more…