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Today is the 9th anniversary of my husband Jose's death. He was my second husband, but the only soul mate I ever had. He was smart, funny, strong, caring, patriotic... I could go on and on with the adjectives, but you get the picture. I still love the guy. When I moved to Arizona from Massachusetts, I met him on one of my first nights at work. It was almost corny ... our eyes met across a crowded room, and there was no going back for either of us. He was a career Army man who had just retired fr… Continue

This is strange ... my first Mother's Day in 35 years without a child in the house. Since Ryan left for boot camp on 15 April, I've been coping with empty nest syndrome. Aside from Ryan's crazy old cat Vader, there is literally no one in my house but me. I went to work this morning (I work part-time at a call center to support my "habit" of being a full-time college student), but they let me go home early because call volumes were unexpectedly low. So I had a rare Sunday afternoon with nothing t… Continue