Finding Love Again -A Widow’s Story
March 31, 2008 by Anna Farmery
Filed under Grief
Remarrying is something that we can often never imagine, so I wanted to share this story with you that I found in the New York Times called How We Got From Grief to Pancakes
She says that she had 2 thoughts
“I have two fears:
1. Of learning to be a family again.
2. Of becoming a widow again.“
The 2 page article talks you through how Patty Dann moves from being afraid to remove her dead husbands clothes from the closet to
“It is almost time for Michael to plant his spring garden. A button broke on the cuff of his shirt recently, and as he stood with the cracked button in the palm of his hand like an offering, I could see him missing Nancy.
I hesitated, then went into the back of my closet and pulled out one of Willem’s shirts. Although I’m no Betsy Ross, I retrieved my box of sewing things, full of threads and needles from Willem’s mother’s Dutch sewing kit.
Working carefully with the tiny scissors, I snipped a button off Willem’s shirt and sewed it onto Michael’s cuff.”
The article also says that she has written a book called The Goldfish Went on Vacation – has anyone read it?
