by Joann Filomena | Apr 26, 2018 |
On my soapbox this morning because I have yet again come across a post from a widow site that is such a downer. As a widow myself, I know the sadness can be crushing – so why try to make it even more painful? I’m determined to change the discourse on...
by Joann Filomena | Mar 15, 2018 |
This morning the universe emailed a reminder to me that all the hard and difficult things I’ve ever attempted were only hard and difficult before I began to work on them. There is so much truth to that. I can look back over the last two years at all the...
by Joann Filomena | Mar 11, 2018 |
His friend, John, referred to the Esopus as Jim’s personal Ganges. So it was. He swam here every summer as a kid, and drove up to stay here many times as an adult, until I bought the house and we moved upstate. This is the old bridge in Mt. Tremper where he...
by Joann Filomena | Mar 10, 2018 |
This is a question I’ve been asking other widows – what is it you wish you knew? The answers are varied and sometimes, even contradicting. But that is how widowhood is. As much as we all have in common, and trust me it is a LOT, we are also having a...
by Joann Filomena | Mar 10, 2018 |
So, this all began as a private blog under “lock down” so that I could communicate with my husband after he passed away in the way we met:. In text, over the internet, over 20 years ago. It was the birth of the internet really. Back in 1991, posting a...
by Joann Filomena | Mar 8, 2018 |
Dear Mom and Dad, I started this as a way to “talk” to Jim after he passed on, but realized I could reach out to you two as well. Writing to dead people may become a habit. Yesterday I started a visualization/meditation to create money in my life. I...
