Seriously, I haven't done anything this summer but sleep long hours, read some great books and watch re-runs on TNT. I need to get something done! I did buy a new laptop, however I haven't done much else. We leave for vacation a week from tomorrow and I know that next week is going to be a busy week. I wonder what else this summer holds in store for me? I guess whatever I make of it. I do that...answer my questions. So I do have a great quote from a recent book I read. The book is The Windmill by Stephanie Gertler. It's an older book, published in 2004, but it has great insight into looking at ones self. I love books that make you want to reflect on yourself and the life you have lived.

It's a strange thing about losing a husband. You remain defined as a daughter, a sister, a mother and a friend when they who give you the definitions are gone. But when you lose a husband, you are no longer a wife. In the blink of an eye you become a widow. A fragment left dangling, undefined and alone.

Granted I haven't lost a husband, but the quote itself is so true . What happens to a woman when she loses her other half?