Seconds before boarding my flight, I posted one final announcement: “I’m divorcing my husband, effective today.” At that exact moment, my CEO husband was at the hospital beside his mistress as she gave birth to his child. His call came instantly – Welcome

I woke with a sense of clarity I hadn’t felt in years.

I made coffee.

Then I walked across the lawn in broad daylight and went straight to Monica’s flower bed.

There sat my garden gnome.

Still wearing the blue paint she’d put on him.

The chipped nose remained visible, and beneath the blue I could make out traces of the original red hat.

I picked him up continue reading …