My dearest husband, Michael, had never experienced such culinary pleasure until he came to the US to visit me the first time and we went to the International House of Pancakes, IHOP. Nor, do I think, had he ever seen such quantities of food shoved down the gullet of a […]
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The past year was an incredible learning experience for me. The loss of my beloved husband, Michael, threw my world into turmoil that I’d never imagined. We planned on forever but it’s obvious that other plans were in motion by agents unknown which tossed a monkey wrench into the works. […]
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As I’m down here in Florida to clean out a storage locker that my late husband and I have been paying for for the past ten years, I decidecd to pay a visit to my step-father, see how he’s doing. I haven’t seen him or talked to him since I […]
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I’ve spent the requisite year in mourning, trying desperately to understand why my beloved husband was taken from me at such an early age, and regretting that we never had enough time to share the love we had. It was always so much bigger than the both of us, consuming […]
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Undoubtedly, it’s been a hard year. After all that’s happened this year, one might think that I’d just chuck it all in and say “to hell with the holidays, and screw you, Thanksgiving”. But that’s not the case at all. While I’m not very thankful for the misery imposed on […]
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