One Man's Grief

About the Book

An accumulated collection of reactions, thoughts, the aftermath, anniversaries, and later reflections in the kaleidoscope experience of losing a beloved spouse of many years, from the initial news to its conclusion and after, until the recognition for the need to begin closure several years later. Each writing in the collection being a spontaneous reaction to a trigger event of that instant reflecting the high vulnerability of the survivor coping with the intensity of the loss.

About the Author

A native Texan of Dallas, born in 1926 of immigrant Greeks from Messinia in the Peloponnesus of Greece. Educated in the public schools of Dallas and the Holy Trinity parish school with fluency in Greek. A veteran of World War II, graduated from Texas A&M University in 1948, with Bachelor of Science degree in Aeronautical Engineering. !948 assignment to Greece for an American corporation in the post war Marshall Plan rehabilitation of Europe. Career comprised of association with design firms in supervisory and managerial levels, and patent awards. Elective retirement in 1993. Interests are, travel, reading, writing, culinary, gardening, scale modeling. After forty-six years marital status, widowed in 1997.