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It all started as posting updates for friends and family during my husband’s battle with leukemia. While that was a true “smelting” time for our family, the real journey has been all that has come since. I invite you to follow along as I document navigating grief, widowhood, maintaining faith, and finding joy in living despite the challenges.

  • Well, It’s Been a Minute
    Or make that more like 344,100 minutes. Because how is it already August and this is my first post for 2025? One could argue that I haven’t needed this blog of late in the same way I used to. It’s true that I have a living,…
  • It Doesn’t Take Much
    Do you ever have seemingly silly things that give you little jolts of happiness every time you see or think of them? I have always loved looking for and identifying those. I have a “Happy Book” full of them. A recent one for me is this…
  • Bring on 2025!
    No surprise, but this past week I’ve been contemplating what I wanted my focus word to be for 2025, as well as critiquing how I think I did with my word from 2024. To be honest, not great for 2024. Or rather, I give myself mixed…

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