My Son Left Me With Nothing After His Father Died — But He Didn’t Know What I Had Planned

I was born Naomi Marie Blackwood and became Naomi Canton when I married Nicholas in 1981. For more than forty years, I carried his name proudly. When he died at sixty-eight, after fourteen difficult months of illness, I believed my greatest challenge would simply be learning to live without him.

Nicholas and I had built a modest farmhouse in Pennsylvania continue reading …