Entries Tagged as: divorce

11/12/21

Do You Know the Basic Nature of Life?

Greetings sweet friends! How are you?

Tuesday morning I did something I hadn’t done in more than two years – I drove south through the intersection where I nearly died in a car crash in 2019 when a car ran a red light and broadsided my Jeep. That moment remains vivid – I felt like I’d been struck by a bomb. While my car spun, time slowed and I thought, this is how it is to die.  No wonder I’d avoided that intersection for years. But Tuesday I was in a hurry and found myself where I hadn’t meant to be. I breathed, waited for the light to change, and drove through the intersection. Greetings sweet friends! How are you?

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No Comments     Tags: Covid-19 · Depression · Disassembly Required · divorce · loss · midlife crisis · perseverance · reinvention · resilience · self-help · suffering

05/15/19

Life After Divorce. 7 Lessons I Learned From My Husband’s Affair

Hardship is the raw material for learning how to navigate life after divorce. What I’ve learned from my pitfalls has allowed me to help others through volunteerism and writing about my experiences.

All that anguish wasn’t for naught.


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No Comments     Tags: beginning again · divorce · divorce court · divorce recovery · how to survive an affair · live after divorce · mindfulness · moving on after divorce · single mother · Starting Over

02/15/19

The Unexpected Jubilee I Walked In On

I got off to a slow start last Sunday morning, but realized I could still make the 11:30 a.m. mass at the Cathedral of St. John the Baptist, Savannah’s Roman Catholic Mother Church. So I hurried off, parked, and quickly ducked inside, clueless about what awaited me.

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8 Comments     Tags: anniversary · Cathedral of St. John the Baptist · Catholicism · divorce · marriage · National Marriage Week · sacrament of marriage · Savannah · World Marriage Day

" Ostensibly about the break-up of her marriage and loss of her dream house, a four-story Victorian brownstone in Brooklyn's Carroll Gardens neighborhood, Beverly Willett's absorbing memoir is really about finding a home in one's own skin. A delight."

Courtney Hargrave, Author of Burden: A Preacher, A Klansman and a True Story of Redemption in the Modern South, a major motion picture starring Forest Whitaker
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