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The Last Decade: It Was the Best of Times, It Was the Worst of Times

The Last Decade: It Was the Best of Times, It Was the Worst of Times

Carol Nau
Diary

There is no other period in my life that has shaped me more as a human being than the past decade.

It has dealt me the most heart-breaking, deeply-wounding, and most devastating event that I have ever experienced.

But it is the same one that set me on the path of transformation and self-discovery.

Each new year of this past decade found me writing a chapter in the book that is my life.

I wrote new stories that I would never have imagined before the start of my painful journey in 2009.

Like Dickens’ novel, A Tale of Two Cities, each year the plot was riddled with the big Cs - contradictions, contrasts, challenges, and complexities.

But there were also stories of love, beauty, courage, endurance, and the triumph of the human spirit.

Happy Anniversary, Party of One

Happy Anniversary, Party of One

Carol Nau
Diary

Another anniversary is here. May 22 marks what would’ve been our 30th anniversary. You know how I’ve always hated the would’ves, could’ves, and should’ves because I equate them to regret. To me, regret is the most useless emotion. Why?

The Journey

The Journey

Carol Nau
Diary

My journey from loss back to life began on November 25, 2009, when my husband and the love of my life, Tim, died of complications of liver cancer, a result of the insidious Hep-C virus that he did not even know he had until just a few years before his cancer diagnosis.