By Greg
SPOILER ALERT: There WILL be more…
This month marks two years since I started the TrennaMahney.com website.
I have loved doing it. It has reminded me of so many events, incidents, feelings, from my time with Trenna. The stories Trenna and I have told and the records I have published have allowed me to relive so many experiences.
And it has helped me to reflect on just how lucky we were to find each other and to spend what we considered a long time together.
But lately I have found it harder to find the time and energy to sit down and complete stories. My brain hasn’t been giving the website the same priority it did for most of the last two years.
Christmas would have been a factor, and I have been travelling quite a bit more than in the past. I’ve also taken on some extra volunteering responsibilities.
And I got a bit disheartened when the MacBook I had been using a lot started to have keyboard troubles that still aren’t resolved, and the Website had some technical glitch that lasted for weeks and made the site look a bit weird – that one is fixed, I think.
Irrespective of those factors, the urge to write just isn’t the same.
I’ve come to the conclusion, as you probably already have, that my grieving is moving to a different point.
All along I was aware that the website was part of my way of coming to terms with the loss of my wonderful wife. It was also fulfilling my very real desire for Trenna’s story to have a wider audience. It has now gone a long way in achieving both those aims.
So, What Now?
I guess what I’m getting to is the realisation that new posts will not appear as often, and I’ll enjoy engaging in other pursuits.
I’ve currently got ideas for dozens of extra posts and I’m quite sure many will still see the light of day as and when I’m ready. I don’t know what the output will be.
Two Years
As I mentioned the website has been up for two years, and Trenna has been gone a year longer than that.
When I first started the site I thought it might take a couple of years to get all the stories published. It turns out Trenna left way more memories than that! I’ll chip away at the them for a while longer, but also enjoy the three holidays I already have planned for this year and another that is in the pipeline.
In notionally setting a two year time frame I had been conscious that I didn’t want to be a sad old man writing about his dead wife for the rest of his life. (For the record, I’m not very sad at all – although of course I miss her like crazy.)
I’m enjoying life, and I still enjoy thinking of Trenna. For now I’ll keep doing both.
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A Few Statistics
Finally, here are a few statistics on the website to date.
Number of Posts Published: 179
Number of Words in the Posts: 325,914
Reading Time to Read the Whole Site (assumes 220 words per minute): About 24 hours
I’ll be back soon…