The story of this missing plane just keeps getting stranger. It’s interesting to me to watch how surprised people are that we do not yet have answers. How shocked people are that it remains a mystery even in the face of technology and manpower. We like to read mysteries, not live them. We crave theContinue reading “Mystery”
Tag Archives: sudden spousal abandonment
The Mourning After
I realized something the other day. I no longer remember my ex husband. Not in any real way. For a long time, when people asked me what I had loved about him, I could tap into the old feelings and describe the relationship we had (at least from my perspective). With the retelling came theContinue reading “The Mourning After”
Revisionist
When I was in the early days after the text, I found Viki Stark’s blog, Runaway Husbands. I had mixed feelings about the discovery. On the one hand, it felt good to know that I wasn’t alone. On the other, especially as she was collecting stories for her book, it was filled with wives addingContinue reading “Revisionist”
Vulnerable
I’ve been feeling very vulnerable lately. Why? Who knows, but it doesn’t really matter, does it? What matters is that I need to learn to be here when my body is screaming for to hide and bury my head beneath the covers and my mind is begging for to re-erect the barriers that once surroundedContinue reading “Vulnerable”