Work Off the Grief; Try Exhilaration

Solo at the “Old House,” missing Dave.

We don’t talk about it in “widow world” — or at least, not in the part of the group I connect with. “It” is the sense that life without the person you love sometimes seems too painful to bother with. What’s the point?

I watched my mother lose big parts of her life to depression, never treated but probably very justifiable (since my father cheated on her for years, and she knew). One result of seeing…