Outline

Here are some prospective blog posts:

• Somebody Keep an Eye on the Widow
• Seattle Self Service Cremation
• The Great Rain Barrel Disaster
• Smile When You Hand Over the Death Certificate
• Things People Say
• Stages of Grief
• I Didn’t See the 2x4 Coming
• Rage: Who to be Mad At?
• Guilt: Me
• Acceptance, reluctantly
• “But That’s Different”
• If It Had Been Me
• I Am Not Dead Too (a credit bureau thinks I’m dead)
• The Lay Off
• Getting the Notice
• Retraining
• For what?
• Venn Diagram (of me, before/after)
• Grief Walking
• How My Dog Saved my Life
• Tough Love (my sons practice it on me)
• The Little Things Which are All the Things
• How Do I Miss Thee? (I can’t count that high)
• Who Will Kill the Spiders?
• Who Died and Left Me in Charge?
• Gardening while Grieving
• Archaeological Discoveries (digging up the wine corks)
• There is No Joyous Place (sorry, yoga teacher)
• I Don’t Care What You Say, said my Mother
• Mother Superior (role model widows....which one will I follow?)
• Just What IS a Widow, Anyway?
• Vow of Silence (Seems like I’m unwillingly observing it on two levels)
• I Can Talk to the Animals (and walls, and weeds, and my car)
• Say His Name
• Not “he would want you to....”
• Not “he wouldn’t want you to...”
• Just tell me a story
• The 5th Season (lasts 365 days a year)
• Flash Mob Memories
• The “Act As If” Program
• She Looks Okay Now (whew, we’re all off the hook!)
• Moving forward diagonally
• Piece by Piece (stitching together tiny scraps of happiness, wherever found, no matter how small)
• Palimpsest