Widow in the Middle
My blogs
- Creating Another Life
- Picking up the Dropped Stitches of my Life
- Plunged into Poverty
- WITM Book List
- The Cupcake and Brownie Diet
- Surviving Middle-Aged Widowhood
- Widow in Transition
Blogs I follow
- ... like splattered raindrops
- A Widows Perspective
- Dan, in real time.
- Deirdra Eden
- Fresh Widow
- Healing Art
- journey to a new life
- ME, MY LIFE, MY GARDEN
- More Than You Ever Wanted To Know
- My Next 20 Years of Living
- My Sainted Dead Husband
- Nobody's Dead
- Note to Self Book Blog
- Poor Widow Me ®
- Snickollet
- The Alchemy of Loss
- the art of grief
- The Fabric of my Life
- The man who has forever changed my life
- The Real Hunibuni
- What now?
- WidowSphere: A Circle of Hope
Gender | Female |
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Occupation | Social Services |
Location | Suburban Chicago, Illinois |
Introduction | "Baseball mom" of two boys ages 18 and 16. Married for 12 years before husband died of cancer 10/03 when I was 44 and the boys 9 and 10. Have master's degree in psychology and counseling. Remarried 9/06 but husband filed for divorce 1/08 due to issues involving our having to relocate to another state. The divorce was final on April 15, 2009. Forced to sell my five bedroom home of 19 years to avoid foreclosure. Moved to an apartment 9/09. |
Interests | Reading, crafting (knitting, crochet), cooking, travel, antiquing. |
Favorite Movies | Love Actually, Lion King |
Favorite Music | Christian Contemporary, Whatever my boys are listening to, 70s and Disco (Chicago, ABBA, Carpenters, ELO, Fleetwood Mac) |
Favorite Books | Authors Larry McMurtry, John Irving, "The Five Things We Cannot Change and the Happiness We Find by Embracing Them, " Dave Richo, "Drunk, Divorced and Covered in Cat Hair, " Laurie Perry |