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When my husband died, the world did not pause. The sun rose. The garbage was picked up every Tuesday. The kids went to school. The grocery store stayed open. And I remember thinking: How can everything look so normal when nothing is normal? Chapter One began and there was no pause button. The world kept turning, but my world had stopped. The day after he died, our best man and his almost ex-wife showed up with food. It felt awkward and surreal. They had never really gathered

Hello World! I have thought about starting a blog for a very long time. Maybe a lifetime. I lost my husband when I was 46 years old. He was only 52. Overnight, I became a widow and a single mother to a 21-year-old, a 19-year-old, and a 14-year-old. The loss was devastating. He was my best friend, my partner, my person. That moment marked the beginning of my new normal—whether I wanted it or not. Chapter One started without my consent. Let me go back to the beginning. M was m