This week would have been my 15 year anniversary. This week, my Ex re-marries. To say that there are a lot of mixed emotions would be an understatement. My head houses so many memories, linked with feelings, that I can revisit in an instant. They make me smile, laugh out loud, wistful, and …
Divorce
The year we almost canceled Christmas
It's been exactly 4 years since Mina's dad moved out and we had just filed for divorce. Instead of getting the house filled up with holiday trimmings and and presents, it was slowly being emptied out bit by bit as Mina's dad slowly moved his stuff out of the house at night after Mina and I went to …
Mirror Images
I had conversation with a friend on Tuesday that was like a mirror image of myself a few years ago. I felt as if I was in a time warp. It got me thinking. If your future self sat you down and gave you advice, now, would you listen? Would hearing what the other side of hell was like, would you want …
Dinner Conversations….
Mina came home yesterday after a week with her dad and grandparents. She decided she was ready to talk about her feelings regarding the Divorce. Typical Mina style, she told me that she finally had words to express how she felt and she wanted to discuss them. "It's hard for a little girl to go from …
Kismet
The Fates or Moirae, were weavers of destiny. They were Clotho, the spinner, Lachesis, the measurer, and Atropos, who snipped the thread. They are there from the moment of our birth when the distaff is threaded, throughout the measure of our life, and at the very end, when the thread is cut. I …