Category: Sharon
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Recovering from Fibromyalgia
Introductory note from husband/faithful companion. An online friend asked Sharon about fibromyalgia aka FMS because a friend had been diagnosed with it. I’ve lost which friend it was who asked her, but this was her response. She wrote back with her very hard-earned knowledge. Sorry for the delay in my response. Weather and other things.…
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About Sharon
Sharon with her coffee and her caretaker, Pirate Sharon was the best woman who ever lived, the love of my life, and my wife for 41 years until she went to her reward in 2021. She was S. T. Gaffney as an author, Sharon to her college students, Mrs. G. to her high school students,…
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Dragon Goes to Phoenix
The odyssey began in the aftermath of the passing of the last of our nine cats, Leopard. His sister, Pirate, had passed several days after Christmas in 2004. Of all our cats, except perhaps his mother, Ginger, his was the longest goodbye. Many people put their animals down at the first sign of illness. We…
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The Meaning of Home
This is an essay that my wife wrote at Christmas time in 2016. I stumbled across it today and want to share it. There are many ways to think about what we mean when we say “home”. It can be an actual place or it can be more of an attitude and perspective on life.…
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The Wolf Tale
This is a “guest post” from my wife who died in 2021. It’s a couple days late for Valentine’s Day, but I came across it this morning while reorganizing files on the computer. She wrote this in 2020 after her second heart attack. Below is what she wrote to a friend about this work of…
Musings of a Restless Mind 