Widows – Carrie Morris

Insistent Life

By: Carrie Morris August 4, 2019September 3, 2019

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If you could peek into my heart on this fifth anniversary of my husband Steve’s death, it would look something like the neighborhood I walked through the other day.

Not…

By: Carrie Morris August 2, 2019September 3, 2019

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It was five years ago: a night like tonight…but not.

Redemption

We have slowly found our way to a measure of redemption.

Half Full

By: Carrie Morris January 30, 2019May 17, 2019

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…where does a person even begin to figure out how it all works, now that everything has changed?

Still Standing

Seeing them in this victimized state was just as shocking as it would be to see our beloved Snoopy with a black eye.

Free

…she chose to focus on the one and only positive aspect of his death: his freedom.

11:59

If I have any say in the matter, I will not take a step forward.

The Heart Knows

By: Carrie Morris August 1, 2018April 1, 2019

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Sometimes my heart knows what my head has yet to wrap itself around.

Out of the Picture

“When I look at this photo, I see the man behind the camera…”

Ripples

My life keeps moving forward, even though at times it feels as if it should have stopped on that surreal day–like a clock whose hands are frozen at the exact moment it got knocked off the mantel.