Passages
I think everyone likes to feel needed and valued. I know that's true for me. Not so much when I was a little girl and my mother wanted me to set the table and clean up after dinner with my sisters. After the last bite of dessert, I would escape to the bathroom and hide in there until I was sure the last glass had been put back into the cupboard. When Steve and I married, we had each other to care for until the first of our five children arrived just seven years apart. I remember carrying an infant with a toddler wrapped around my leg. Part of me loved it and part of me thought I was being swallowed whole. But those years passed way to quickly. Maybe thirty years at most and we were on our own again. And now, I am completely alone for the first time in my life. No children, no husband, no house to manage, although my handful of plants need water from time to time . I thought about getting a puppy but Wisconsin winters are not friendly for dog walking. And it would feel like a repea...