Tag: love
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Comforted by a Book
In honor of National Book Lover’s Day, I wanted to share a story of a memoir I wrote last year. I was recently made aware of a woman who received my book in the mail as a present to help give her peace after the death of her mom. (You Don’t Know Jack! : How…
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Flashes from the Other Side
When it comes to grief, the lack of predictability is one of the hardest elements. As anyone who has lost a significant person in their life knows, the waves of sadness come and go with no regular pattern. Any thought at any time can spark a grief reaction and release the tears with almost no…
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The Second Year
So many people advised me about “that first year of widowhood.” They’d say, “Don’t make any major decisions that first year.” And others privately shared that the second year was harder. Well, now that I’ve been through both, I can agree that, for me, the second was harder, which didn’t make sense, so I had…
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Exploding Gardenia Blooms
I have never seen a gardenia bush produce such an explosion of so many blossoms all at once. That is my favorite flower fragrance of all. I fell in love with it when my late husband and I went to Hawaii for our long-awaited honeymoon, 30 years after we were married. It was also his…
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Jack’s Spirit Knows
As I have shared before, I connect with my late husband, Jack, through my medium Gail (gailandspirit.com). This last reading was amazing. I described one of the messages in the blog post in which Jack sent Gail an image of an Elvis singing tearjerker from my night before to validate he was with me, The…
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Happy Birthday Wishes
We enjoy wishing people a happy birthday on the day they were born, but people aren’t sure if they should acknowledge that day once a person passes away. Some have said they didn’t want me to think they’ve forgotten about my late husband. Others have said they didn’t want to bring it up and remind…
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A “Thumbs Up” Pop Up!
I just had a mind-blowing reading from a remarkable medium (GailandSpirit.com). As I’ve described in my book, You Don’t Know Jack!, Gail has shared so many messages from my late husband…messages that no one else could know anything about. And that’s why they can be so easily validated. Knowing no one else could know those…
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Birthday Presents from the Other Side
My friend forwarded a video to me that popped up on her phone today. She called to share her surprise and was laughing because she couldn’t believe it was on her phone. It was a video of a slide show made up of pictures of my late husband and me of over 54 years. She…
