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Michelle Dippel

Time Flies….(Guest Blog – Michelle Dippel-Dahlberg)

Posted on: November 3, 2013 | Posted by: Michelle Dippel

It’s that time of year again.  I’ve marched towards today for the past month and a half.  Grumpy one day, fine the next – I think most of my family has felt the uncertainty of my moods but they have hung in there.  This year was different for a couple of reasons – one, I forgot the day the march starts.  Let me clarify that though, my conscious…

Categories: Widowed, Widowed and Healing, Widowed Anniversaries, Widowed by Illness

Cheers!

Posted on: December 23, 2011 | Posted by: Michelle Dippel

I’ll start today with a few toasts to the holidays! Cheers! Merry Christmas! Happy New Year! and drum roll please…..Death still Sucks! Two more days til Christmas, and as usual….I’m not ready yet. I still have a shopping list, I’ve still not wrapped my gifts, and I haven’t watched all the movies I want to see or drank all the eggnog in the…

Categories: Widowed, Widowed Parenting, Widowed Memories, Widowed and Healing, Widowed and New Love, Widowed Holidays, Widowed by Illness

Looking Back, Looking Forward

Posted on: December 9, 2011 | Posted by: Michelle Dippel

I am in the 7th year AD (after Daniel). The 6th anniversary was in November, and this will be our 7th Christmas without him. I was thinking the other day, as Carl, the kids and I decorated the Christmas tree, that I could never have imagined this life that first Christmas in 2005. That Christmas is a dark blur in my mind’s eye. I vaguely remember…

Categories: Widowed, Widowed Memories, Widowed and Healing, Widowed and New Love, Widowed Holidays, Widowed by Illness

It’s Us Against the World

Posted on: November 25, 2011 | Posted by: Michelle Dippel

I heard this song by Coldplay recently and it made me think of all of us. Thought I’d share it. Hugs to all of you. Don’t let go.   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGlqmn2HSTk      Oh morning come bursting the clouds amen Lift off this blindfold let me see again Bring back the water let your ships roll in In my heart she left a hole The…

Categories: Widowed, Widowed and Healing, Widowed by Illness

Ode to a Frog

Posted on: November 8, 2011 | Posted by: Michelle Dippel

Kim’s blog this weekend got me thinking…fondly reminiscing about the “joys” of dating again. This blog isn’t really a poem…more of an epic journey, the story of a quest. I met my husband at the ripe old age of 16, and married him at 22. We did date other people for a while in college, but really – he was “the one” from the beginning. Fast…

Categories: Widowed, Widowed Parenting, Widowed and New Love, Widowed by Illness

The Passing of Time

Posted on: November 3, 2011 | Posted by: Michelle Dippel

Six years ago today. Six years ago today started with a horrific shock at about 1 in the morning. It happened so quickly I can hardly believe I was there for it, or that it was real. One moment I was laying with my head on Daniel’s chest listening to his heart beat, and moments later the ER staff were in our room fighting to save his life. They…

Categories: Widowed, Widowed Anniversaries, Widowed by Illness

Sometimes You’re the Bug

Posted on: September 27, 2011 | Posted by: Michelle Dippel

Found this picture while looking for images that expressed how some of my days have been recently. This one made me laugh out loud! I’m glad to report that it isn’t as bad as all that…but there are moments when I feel like the shark is about that close. I think I sometimes lean heavily on the idea that “this isn’t hard, I’ve experienced hard,…

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Virtual Hugs

Posted on: September 13, 2011 | Posted by: Michelle Dippel

This is for you Dan, and everyone else who is needing a little something extra today to remind them that they can survive this. I’m sending out a big fat virtual hug. Love to you Dan as you reflect on this day and miss Michael. Love to us all, we deserve it.”When the walls fall all around you, when your hope has turned to dust, let the sound of…

Categories: Widowed, Widowed Parenting, Widowed by Illness

Another Ugly Four Letter Word

Posted on: August 30, 2011 | Posted by: Michelle Dippel

Everyone: Carl. Carl: Everyone. So there, now you’ve met. The last few weeks have been full of big changes for us. We’ve bought a new home, he moved into my house for a few weeks during the remodel of the new house, and now we’ve moved into our house together. The wedding is still a few months away, but well into the planning stages. Holy cow we…

Categories: Widowed, Widowed and Healing, Widowed and New Love, Widowed Milestones, Widowed Emotions, Widowed by Illness

Why I go to Camp….

Posted on: August 16, 2011 | Posted by: Michelle Dippel

Each year for the past 8 I have participated in the Relay for Life sponsored by the American Cancer Society. As part of fundraising efforts, we have personal pages telling people why we “relay”. I was thinking yesterday as I was traveling home from Camp Widow about the reasons why I come back each year and continue to work on it in the months in…

Categories: Widowed, Widowed and Healing, Widowed Community, Widowed by Illness

Nine More Days…..

Posted on: August 2, 2011 | Posted by: Michelle Dippel

In just 9 more days I get to see some of my favorite people on the planet! A few of them are pictured here. It seems like only yesterday I was packing my suitcase and heading home after an amazing and exhausting weekend of Camp Widow. How can a year have passed already?I remember thinking after last year’s camp that a nice break from all the…

Categories: Widowed, Widowed and Healing, Widowed Community, Widowed by Illness

Castaway

Posted on: July 19, 2011 | Posted by: Michelle Dippel

Sorry for another movie reference, but this one has been on my mind. Remember the movie Castaway with Tom Hanks? I was reminded of this movie just last week because of a dream I had. Remember how in the movie he returns after being presumed dead for years? His girlfriend of many years has married, and she now has a child, a family…she’s moved on.

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