Before we get to this week’s winners, I want to say thank you for all your comments and particularly for sharing your own experiences with loss.  You are all so open and so brave, so generous with your prayers and your kind words, not just for me, but for all our blog sisters and, no doubt, a brother or two.

Over the weekend, I played Word Solitaire on my phone and considered unplugging about a million times.  Alas, I didn’t actually do it.    I listened to Denise Grover Swank’s TWENTY-EIGHT AND A HALF WISHES, which was cute, funny and action-packed, … Read More »

I went to lunch with Mary Ann and Jen today, and even though I’m still feeling sad, it was good to get out of the house.  We visited a favorite Mexican restaurant, talked things over, laughed a little, and enjoyed each other’s company.  Life goes on, thank heaven, and all any of us really have is today.  Here in Spokane, the sun is shining, the peonies and irises are still in bloom, and the roses are coming on, ready to take the stage when their short-lived sister flowers take their bows and retreat into the wings to await their next … Read More »