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Boulevard Park, Bellingham, WA A new song that I have on repeat in my brain and Spotify lately is by Josh Baldwin and Jen Johnson, Made...

This is the third of my series on The Houses That Built Me. The first two blogs on this subject are: The House That Built Me: Our Last...

In 2020, along with Pete’s 3 surgeries and another for myself, I had my gallbladder removed because it was causing pancreatitis. At that...

Just like I’ve established in other blogs, grief doesn’t stop just because I’ve made plans. A month after Pete passed away, I contacted a...

I just received this text today and thought that my answer would make a good blog. “I’m going to see my friend whose husband recently...

In the past twenty-five years, if you ever saw Pete dressed up, it was probably at church, in a collared shirt and jeans, and he probably...

I was with Pete the first time he put his feet in the Pacific Ocean.  We weren’t even married then. He had always lived in the midwest...

I recently attended a Never Alone Widows conference and it was very good for my heart. It was also very difficult. Thinking about it now,...

I made it pretty well through Thanksgiving.  Bri visited for the week from Chicago.  We had a simple meal from a restaurant that we...

In the late 70s, in Frankenmuth, Michigan, Pete was giving his momma attitude during an argument and ran outside of their home and hit...