The Butterfly Has Escaped
This last couple of months has been a rebirth for me. I’m not really sure what happened, but somewhere, somehow a switch has been flipped. On a cruise with my sister in May, she and I were talking as she was now dating after her divorce and I told her that I really wanted to date again. She said to me, “Martha, you are not ready to date yet.” This was a surprise to hear her say that. Most people want you to move on after a year, but I was already past the two year mark. I asked her why she said that and she said, “You haven’t let go of him yet.” On June 9, I drove to Austin as my sister and I were leaving the next morning to visit Las Vegas. I arrived in Austin mid-afternoon and Maria, my sister, told me there was a wine walk at the Hill Country Galleria. We decided to check it out; many of the stores were serving tastes of various wines to enjoy while you shopped. One of the shops we entered was a store that sold different kinds of signs with var...