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Greeting Card Holiday

Valentine’s Day, 2004: I was seventeen and my boyfriend was eighteen. We’d been dating seven months and for the commercialized greeting...

Aimee Williams

Feb 13, 20183 min read

In 2010 I attended a hybrid online RN program. I was also working 40 hours a week as an LPN and was the breadwinner in our home. I was a...

Aimee Williams

Feb 9, 20184 min read

Earlier today I was giving the car seat latch a piece of my mind; having a mini-meltdown because it would not install properly in the...

Aimee Williams

Jan 15, 20185 min read

(Written December 2015) To you, dear widow: On the days when you hold your head high and manage a smile, I'm proud of you. ...

Aimee Williams

Dec 22, 20173 min read

(Written December 19, 2015) It seems as though you die again every night after I put the kids to bed. I do not feel the shock I felt...

Aimee Williams

Dec 19, 20173 min read

We spent eleven years together, eleven years of love, eleven years with their ups and downs, eleven years figuring out life side by side....

Aimee Williams

Dec 18, 20174 min read

Five years ago I was in my third trimester with my first child, an expectant mother in the Christmas season. It was a beautiful time of...

Aimee Williams

Dec 5, 20174 min read

A few days ago I was acutely missing Chris so I thought I’d go out to Cedar Lake and sit for a few minutes. In my mind I had it planned...

Aimee Williams

Nov 13, 20174 min read