Cassidy For Maine

This blog should be retired

It's from a few years ago -- when I was a candidate for the Maine House of Representatives in 2008. I didn't win, and I also didn't win when I ran again in 2010.

Then, something far more sad and serious than losing a race for an elected office happened. The day after I lost in early November 2010, my husband -- who had been my biggest supporter in the campaign -- told me he wasn't feeling well. He hadn't felt well for weeks, he said, but he didn't want anything to interrupt my campaign focus and intensity.

Two weeks later, we learned he had pancreatic cancer. Then came 14 months of doing everything that a husband and wife do, who have been unfortunate enough to live with cancer. He was the patient, I was the caregiver. We went forward for 14 months, making it the best 14 months of our 10 years together. He died on January 17, 2012, at the VA Hospice Unit at Togus Veterans Hospital in Augusta, Maine.

Barely two months after Frank's death, I have started a new blog -- Widows to Windows. That's how you can follow my new life, now. Everything has changed, for better or for worse. I've had the worst of it, and now I'm working on a better life.