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A few year’s ago my son lost his friend and he said to me, “Mom, what is Great Falls going to do without Brendan Kelly?”  Tonight, I felt anxious after being away for a week and already a bit off schedule in my writing. In fact, this was the first time so much time elapsed…

I have always been proud to be raised in a family of cops, firemen, and a priest. I remember one day my friend “Lucy” saying to me, “Colleen, most people help their family and friends, you help the world.” And why wouldn’t I? It was the example I saw growing up. I witnessed my uncle…

Women like their wine, divorcing women LOVE their wine. Or what I jokingly refer to as the Wescape. A pretty little place you get to run away to for a few hours to forget your worries. One day in the beginning of my divorce I found myself in the wine aisle of the grocery store.…

I drag my chair closer to the desk, grab a headset and click on the mouse. Computer keys pound in the background choreographed by the women who sit beside me. My first call registers on the screen. “Hello, Karin’s Florist, this is Colleen, how may I help you?” I utter softly, so as not to…

There’s an expression, “We are supposed to be getting better with age.” I’m not necessarily certain this is true in the area of love. I think it’s possible we love worse, not better. Less and not more. Poorly rather than richly. But children, they possess an ability to nurture and foster this emotion and a…

The agony of an affair can haunt the spouse of a cheater. It’s tremendously difficult to quell the suffering of this type of broken heart. In divorce, it’s strictly the pain of seeing a past love, with an affair it’s also the person who stole them away. The affair touch points are fairly universal for…

There’s an expression in the Alzheimer’s community, “You lose the person you love twice: Once while they are still living and again when they pass on.” I remember watching my mother suffer throughout this ugly disease. To the world, it appeared I still had my mother but I had grieved her long before she passed…

I climb into bed and my head finds the pillow. This evening ritual means nothing to this divorce induced insomniac. My chocolate lab Hazel circles next to me and finally flops down. She rests so peacefully I can hear her snuggled snores. I can’t get a song out of my head. It is an old song…

Every Valentine’s Day my local grocery store has a line of men in the express line that winds back to the floral department. And there they stand a dozen red roses in hand, maybe some chocolates and the clock is ticking since it’s already dinner time.  Of course, there are women as well but it’s…

I am driving down the road and realize something feels off today. At first, I can’t put the proverbial finger on it. Then I realize… Wow, I actually slept through the entire night. No divorcemares. No tossing and turning. No up in the middle of the night. I not only have my hair done I…
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