Barbara’s Riffs on Life

A Meditation for Holy Week: An Afterlife Where Time Does Not Exist?

Eternal life? That’s got to be boring as hell. How about an afterlife where time does not exist, that’s outside of time as we know it? Read more.

I want friends and family to think I’m doing just fine, even though I’m not. The truth is, I’m widowed and lonely. Don’t miss.

Memories of the strange and frightening months of quarantine are fading. Is it time to retell those tales of the pandemic shut-down? Read more.

What to say to a widow? Here’s a tip: If the widow in question is me — tell me a true story about my husband. Read more.

Some old people, including me, are a lot like little kids. We like to brag about how old we are. Read more.

People don’t die anymore — they “pass.” Otherwise sophisticated, hard-headed people are resorting to euphemisms when the subject is death. Read more.