Light through Tears

Essays & Poetry about My Widow’s Journey to a New Normal

Essays (in no particular order)

• Rhythms of Life
• On Being Alone: In the Still of the Night
• Going Out on a Limb: Into the Breach, My First Social Forays
• Wrapped in His Comfort: The Strength of the Lord
• Reflections of Widowhood
• Reflections: Kelly’s Angel Day — November 9, 2004
• Plumbing, A Widow’s Nemesis
• Birthday Tacos for Kelly
• Carpe Diem a Requiem
• O Captain! My Captain!
• Changes & Reflections
• Slipping Between Sheets
• Matchmaker, Matchmaker . . .
• Survey Says — Valentine’s Day Edition
• Kelly and Food
• The Maroon Dress
• Joy to the Fishes in the Deep Blue Sea
• Shifting Sands of Time
• Happy Birthday Kelly!
• Starry, Starry Night
• November

Poetry

• Longings
• The Fruit Basket — A Poem for National Widows Day
• Triumph
• In Fifty-Five Words
• Pancakes Times Three
• Kelly (an Acrostic Poem)

Music