GLIMMERS

I held my book in my hands. My actual book. Glimmers in the Dark: Tales of a Bougie Widow. I’m not sure there are words for what that felt like. This book started in the darkest season of my life. I didn’t sit down one day and think, You know what would be fun? Becoming an author. Life gave me a story I never wanted to write. I lost my son, Brian. Twenty days later, I lost my husband, Christopher. Somehow, in the middle of shock, grief, questions, tears, completely inappropri