by Betsy Dane | Aug 15, 2019 | Grief, Moving On in Life
One of the things I have learned through this journey called life is that there is an amazingly fine line between holding on to things that hold good memories and being a hoarder. When my father passed away over thirty years ago, while we had always considered my...
by Betsy Dane | Aug 12, 2019 | Grief, Moving On in Life
This past week I went “home” to Sarasota. We had lived there for fifteen years before moving to Tennessee together to semi-retire. It was the first time I had really gone anywhere without my beloved Tom (other than moving out west) and I traveled with a...
by Betsy Dane | Aug 9, 2019 | This and That
Recently, I had the opportunity to have dinner with an old friend. We have “talked” via social media for several years, but we were able to have a “real live…in person…give me a HUGE hug…I have missed you” kind of dinner😁. Of...
by Betsy Dane | Jul 27, 2019 | Grief
For those of us who love dogs (and who among us doesn’t?), one of the most endearing things a dog can do is look at you with those soulful eyes and…tilt his or her head to one side. It might mean “I’m sorry”😥, or “What did you...
by Betsy Dane | Jul 22, 2019 | This and That
When I first started to think about writing a blog, I did so thinking I would write about grief. Having suddenly lost my beloved soulmate of 40 years in April 2018, I thought that that was all there was…just getting by, day by day, with the overwhelming grief...