If we descended from space aliens, that's just as viable as Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, as far as I'm concerned.
Widow" is a harsh and hurtful word. It comes from the Sanskrit and it means "empty. " I have been empty too long.
It's wrenching enough to lose the man who is your lover, your companion, your best friend, the father of your children, without losing yourself as well.
Since every death diminishes us a little, we grieve - not so much for the death as for ourselves.
After my husband died, I felt like one of those spiraled shells washed upon the beach. . . Poke a straw through the twisting tunnel, around and around, and there is nothing there. No flesh. No life. Whatever lived there is dried up and gone.
If the door is locked, try the window.
Over the past decades. . . while many businesses have pursued what I call 'business as usual', I have been part of a different, smaller business movement, one that tried to put idealism back on the agenda.
When you think about it, most of the good ideas came along to make sin a whole lot easier.
But I intend to make you respectable.
Increasingly, people perceive no difference between the narcissistic self-serving reporters asking questions, and the narcissistic self-serving politicians who evade them.