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Hope and a wonderful day

Today is a great day. I am feeling hopeful for the first time in a month.

My friends continue to be awesome with their support and love. Their prayers and comforting. My prayers and helping.

Today I was going through a box of papers from 2005, during the time we moved to Atlanta from Chicago. I found [...]

Just waiting

Is it wrong to want to speed up time?

I might have said it before but the waiting is excruciating. What am I waiting for? I don’t know.

It started at the hospital. I thought I was waiting for people to come, then to my house. Then I thought I was waiting for the arrangement details to [...]

Why Peter?

Today, I got mad. Why? WHY WHY WHY? Why Peter?

My mindful self knows that Anita did great things on this earth. She touched many people. She did God’s work and burned her candle at both ends for the short time she was here. I know that she did her work, but then she was done [...]

Adding up the time

Anita and I rarely went a day when we did not see each other. I’m not sure how other couples do it – sometimes I felt like everyone did it like us and other times I felt like we were completely unique (weird).

We were married for 5,479 days (15 years plus 1 day). Prior [...]

The laundry is never done

Dear Anita –

The laundry is never done.
The bathrooms don’t stay clean.
The dishes get dirty.
The desk gets messier.

It’s not a matter of faith

From the time at the hospital when the doctor told me she was gone (they really do say “we did everything we could do, but we couldn’t save her” – or maybe he was just watching too much TV), I knew that the cold body lying in the ER was not Anita. Anita had moved [...]

How are you?

I have to answer this question countless times a daw. Usually I reply with somthing like “hanging in there”, “up and down”, “as good as can be expected” or even maybe “I don’t know”.

But how am I really? Devastated.