Love | Life | Family

A book about love Category: is where I add posts, memories – and diarised accounts of my life with my husband, Brendan. It covers our story from when he and I met, married and had our twins to when he died too young at 45. Starting at one, it doesn’t follow a chronological timeline. One day this category will be a complete story for my children to treasure. They only know small parts of the bigger story. I add to this category inconsistently as I work through our old blogs and diaries to bring them together in one place.

Kalico Category: is about me, now – widowed, middle-aged and grateful to be here. Starting over. I will also chronicle my midlife career change, creating and publishing books I want to read. This is a new category. I hope to post here consistently.

CallieMM Category: this is usually a monthly update. I post more reliably in this category as my family and friends not living close by still like to check-in with us. It remains a public blog as I know people have walked, are walking, or will walk similar paths to mine. It has always helped me to know someone has gone before me and is still moving forward. I want to be that someone for others.

I now know the pain of loss won’t kill me. But living with it will always be a work in progress.

 

This is me at home, a self-portrait (selfie) taken in March 2023. As the photographer in the family, I’m in very few photos with them; my tip, if you’re the family photographer for your crew, is to take at least one self-portrait a year. At a minimum, I always take one around my birthday.

Better still, jump out from behind the camera into more family pics. 🙂