I feel like I have been on standstill since May. Things in storage, renting a cabin and just staying busy enough to not go nuts! I can finally see that light in the tunnel. Let me explain... I have a contract to buy a house in Central Montana about 4 hours from my present spot in Western Montana. And today (9/11) my property in Missouri is under contract to sell! Finally! In October everything should come together. Closing on Missouri house and purchase of new one, all in about a week's time. I am so thrilled!  The little house needs some TLC but should be fun to turn it into mine. This is the first time in my life that I have solely owned a house. I have been a partner to a few but this one is all mine. I am embracing this for more than one reason, but the main being, moving forward.  I look at it like this, I didn't choose to be unmarried/single but life chose it for me. Tom's passing only gave me one choice in my mind. Believe me I argued, I screa...

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I walked my first 5k this last weekend on the 5th. Three miles turned into four because of some change in course. I cried 85% of the Walk only because this day that I walked this was our 16th anniversary!  I so wish that my husband was back at the brewery sitting there waiting for me cheering me on!  I do have to say that the folks who ran the 5K were very awesome. Very caring people, they saw that I was really struggling and checked on me every so often just to be sure that I made it. Half of the Walk was uphill and they were concerned. I am ever so grateful for their kindness.  When I got back I had a squirt and received my token glass and the guy that was part of the 5K was cheering me on when I got back!  I go again this weekend to another... Hopefully it goes a lot better!! 💞 Mary

As the younger generation would say! 🙃 I definitely feel like I'm on a quest! A journey as some would call it! It definitely feels like another life change, dramatic life change. Because it feels like I'm in a sift and the wheat is being separated from the chaff per se.  In some aspects, some parts of my life are in a holding pattern. As if in mid-air! That just tells me that I'm being impatient while God's trying to work behind the scenes. At least that's what it's been in my life.  So I carry on with the things that I have absolute control over at this point. Keep moving forward. One step at a time.  My business is in a holding pattern and my next move is in a holding pattern so I wait! 

I wasn't sure exactly what I was going to talk about today but God. 😏 A person goes through life acquiring friendships on all kinds of levels. From close to acquaintances. I once was told, as you get older the less and less friends you will have in your circle. I thought that person was nuts! Well I am here to tell you they were not. When I say friends, I mean those that you can tell your everything too! I have been blessed to have a few in my life. I had one for like 20 years and a couple others lasted about half that long. It is really difficult to find these kinds of people in this big ol world. But it seems these friendships go away at some point either because I outgrew the friendship or they outgrew it. However, it ends up being heartbreaking! In recent years, I lost one because he died. So I guess you could say he outgrew me. No but seriously he was the best! No judgments, loyal to the death and beyond. He took me for me and all of me! God I Miss Him...

I am coming into my season of Anniversaries. Wedding, Death dates, Thanksgiving memories, Christmas memories, and birthdays. I know so many have heard these stories over and over again. But when all your left with is the memories in my world that is all your left with!  At 56, widowed, childless and memories! Every year since I was 24, I have had significant dates in the memory banks. You know the ones that were life changing. Oh I had them before this age growing up, parents divorce, my brothers hearing returned, dad's remarriage, mother's marriage #2 & #3, engagement, marriage, birth of both of my children, etc. https://memasterson.com/ No, I mean life changing in the sense that it was traumatic for my little world! I tell of how I got there in my book. divorced, no job left, no car, homeless and so much more. Losing my grandfather shortly thereafter. So much happened in that short little span after I turned 24. In April of that year I lost custody of my child...