An update on life after widowhood. Life after the death of my wife.
I am now 41 years old. I have one parent left, and that’s my mother. My father died when I was 14, and my stepfather, who married my mother when I was 15, died when I was 39. That obviously means Mama’s been widowed twice, a fate I would not...
In 1993, I was 18 years old. I had lived in the same small town for all 18 of those years. In the South. In Texas, particularly. I was also single, frustrated, gay, and scared out of my mind about the idea of coming out of the closet to my family...