#Dwight Was Here

the journey of a widow

Widow Life

02/14/2020: 13 months…

Feb 14 ❤️ 13 months I was lucky enough to have Valentine’s Day every day. Dwight was the most loving soul. His nickname for me was “love” or “sweets”. His nickname for his daughter Erin was “sug” (short form of sugar). He called almost every woman “lady” and there were 3 women he gave the honorific of “Miss” to: Miss Martha, Miss Sandy, and Miss Ellen (secretary at work). When he first asked me out, I didn’t know anything about him, but we had a few mutual friends, so I checked with them about him. I consistently heard “they broke…

Widow Life

It’s Been 1 Year…

January 2020 - One year 💔 I couldn’t do a 1 year update last month. I mentioned the last day he lived, and a few details from the funeral & day he was buried, but I couldn’t bring myself to focus on the day he died. I didn’t anticipate that every single day of that week would be an anniversary of the days surrounding his death; the day I planned his funeral and picked out his casket, the day we buried him, the day after we buried him was the first night I spent alone, 2 days afterward I had…