http://www.isnare.com/?s=author&a=Elaine+Williams Womens Interest Elaine Williams Fri, 22 Aug 2008 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=247582&ca=Womens+Interest The left side of the bed where my husband used to sleep remains neatly made, hardly a ripple disturbing the quilted surface. I sleep on the right side each night, where I had slept the twenty-plus years we were together. With time, I developed a habit of reading in bed. The left side remained neatly... Death Elaine Williams Thu, 08 May 2008 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=251947&ca=Death After my husband’s death, I enclosed myself in an emotional shell. A hard cased, untouchable cocoon of nothingness. I wanted to be numb, I wanted to be left alone. Many days my self-imposed prison made me want to be loved by someone. Some days I lived and breathed by rote. God kept me breathing when... Death Elaine Williams Fri, 02 May 2008 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=250973&ca=Death My husband was ill ten months with cancer when I had the dream. I had been taking care of his needs for almost eleven months, and even though some days there seemed to be progress, in hindsight I see it was really a steady progression on a downhill curve. One night I had a dream I was upstairs in ou...