Empty Mess

Empty Mess

EMPTY NEST-FULL HEART

And skipping the To-Do list...

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Stephanie Mason-Teague
Aug 09, 2025
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My friends said I should have left a to-do list.

They were trying to console me when I complained that none of the things I thought—(insert “expected”)—my husband would do while I was gone on my Africa trip were actually done when I returned. Two weeks … actually, sixteen days! It was the longest I had been on my own in more than 30 years. I had companio…

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