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I had a good weekend.  I think it was the first weekend since Tony passed away that I wasn’t always on the verge of breaking down into tears.  What helped me?  I watched a documentary called Out of the Clear Blue Sky on Netflix.   It was the story of 9/11 from the perspective of Cantor Fitzgerald – whose company lost almost 700 employees that day. ...

I know with the new year, we start thinking about being healthier, and while I don’t have any concrete goals, you all know I am all about recipes and cooking in general.  I was looking through my Pinterest Page and some other blogs where I have actually written down recipes I’ve wanted to try, but still haven’t yet.  So I thought I’d put them in...

Usually by now I would have a game plan for the year.  All the things I want to accomplish in the coming year, how much weight I want to lose.  Blah blah blah.  I don’t have a single resolution for this year other than to make each day count. I remember back in October, or maybe even early November.  It was a Friday night.  Tony...

During the time when Tony’s family was here after he passed away, I received a box of cheese from Cabot.  The tomato basil was a big hit, but I put the habanero one in my lunch meat drawer because I knew that it was going to be all mine.  When I was cleaning out the fridge over the weekend, I found it and knew it...

So of course since Hannah and Jacob moved in with me, they had to quit their jobs in the city.  You see, I live in the “sticks.”   Like 55 miles NW of the city of Chicago.  When I lived in Oak Park, Chicago was in my backyard – now?  Not so much! So the restaurant Hannah and I wanted to go to on Saturday night...

I had a few organizational goals that I wanted to get done over the long weekend.  One was to organize my clothes.  Since Hannah moved out I basically made her room my closet.  I had stuff in dressers, on shelves in her closet.  When Hannah and Jacob moved in, I basically just took all the clothes and threw them on the extra bed in my...

Not going to lie, a big part of me wanted to just go to bed Christmas Eve and wake up on December 26 and skip Christmas all together.  My grief is still so raw that at any given moment I can feel myself start to tear up and it’s all I can do to not to go into a full blown crying fit right then...

If I were to describe the last six weeks of my life I would say this.  It’s like I am on a Merry Go Round, and it keeps spinning faster and faster and I keep trying to get the operators attention to have them slow it down or stop it, but no one is there to hear me and it just continues to spin around...

How about we start off today’s blog with some good news. . . the winner of the Ninja Blender!   I loved reading each and every one of your Christmas stories! True Random Number Generator:  Min: 1   Max: 100  Result:  64 Erin Love ya, Biz. I think it would be hard to delete the DVR. Just one more thing that breaks my heart for you. My...

Fourteen years ago today, Tony and I got married on the beach in Naples, Florida.  Long time readers will know that Hannah was my maid of honor and my step-son Joe was our best man.  Tony’s parents and my Mom were the only other ones in attendance, and that’s exactly the way I wanted it.  Small.  Intimate.  Although my twin sister will give a dig...