Take example by your father, my boy, and be very careful of vidders all your life, specially if they’ve kept a public house, Sammy.

Some things just couldn’t be protectd from storms. Some things simply needed to be broken off…Once old thing were broken off, amazingly beautiful thing could grow in their place.

In the first year of my grief, there were times when I felt like hiding my personal story of loss and other times when I wanted to wear a sign on my body that read...

Men should think twice before making widowhood women’s only path to power.

It’s like Romeo & Juliet,’ I say. ‘You can’t separate them. Otherwise, there would be no Shakespeare.’ Silence. I decide to be more straightforward. I tell him, ‘Nothing frightens me anymore. I am not even...

…Daisy doesn’t even go to his funeral, Nick and Jordan part ways, and Daisy ends up sticking with racist Tom… you can tell Fitzgerald never took the time to look up at clouds during sunset,...

hospital” infection acquired in the course of his treatment for pneumonia. Even as she is fantasizing that he will be home for dinner she is assuring that he will never return home. How unwitting, all...

The poor fatherless baby of eight months is now the utterly broken-hearted and crushed widow of forty-two! My life as a happy one is ended! the world is gone for me! If I must live...

I think first of the children. What the hell am I supposed to tell them? Then I think about money, the house, all those things no widow will tell you ever crossed her mind.