The Best Years of my Life
By Elaine Williams Recently I was asked to describe the best years of my life. Being a widow of 4 years and mother, there are many different times I considered to be the best years of my life. When I was younger, I remember summers going on seemingly forever. What wonderful times, playing tag [...]
On Becoming a Widow
By Elaine Williams I became a widow at forty-seven years of age. I’d always thought my husband and I would be together forever, or at least a lot longer than the twenty years we had. In that time frame we had three boys, who at the time of his passing were eleven, eighteen and [...]
Starting to Date Again after 27 years, I was Dating a Social Moron
By Elaine Williams My Shirt Says “I Waits for No Man” Wait, does that sound feminist, or sexist? It’s not meant to. There’s a story behind the shirt. I re-entered the dating world after 27 years absence. I had high hopes. I was a good person, a valuable human being with wants and needs. [...]
Dating Again after 50: Not Settling for Less
By Elaine Williams Well, I confess right away I passed the stage where I could be called a girl about twenty five years ago. However, in the intervening time there was a lot of life and living that I’ve participated in and lived through. A widow at 47 Many days held life’s usual ups and [...]
