There are many things I hate about widowhood, but today I’m going to complain about dinner. I hate it. Every single night, it’s my responsibility to figure out our dinner plans. I’m the only one who can meal plan and go to the grocery store. Then I must prep it, cook it, and clean it […]
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Grief and Life Changes
Yesterday, we had our Soaring Spirits Regional Group meetup, at a wonderful outdoor place here in Massachusetts called Hollis HIlls Farms. They have numerous picnic tables for seating, live music, an ice-cream stand, pick your own flowers/apples/blueberries, delicious farm fresh lunch items, apple cider donuts, and chickens roaming around in the grass being chases by […]
The Rerouting of Plans
With my dad’s passing in April and my mom’s return to life up north, my life has changed – with my return from Camp Widow San Diego just four weeks ago, there have been some interesting developments, and as promised I will share more when I’m able. Last week I received an interesting e-mail regarding […]
Sunday Surprise
We celebrated Robyn’s birthday by extending it from Thursday until Sunday. Our celebration featured plenty of good food and drink, a live performance by the “Drunken Shakespeare” Company, cards, gifts, and cake. By Sunday afternoon we were both exhausted, I think. So, once Robyn departed my home I flipped on the television with every good […]
The Mosson Love Story
As my birthday approaches next week so does the day that I met Erik. I met him the day after my 21st birthday. I always told him getting to meet him was my late, but amazing life-changing birthday gift. Although, I did think my birthday was on the 28th of August for 13 years of […]
The Friends We Meet through Loss
Today I’m attending an outdoor ceremony and gathering to unveil a park bench that will bear the name Tim O’Brien on it, in his honor and memory. Tim died from a sudden heart attack on November 20, 2021. He was 50 yrs old and he was doing something he loved when he died – running. […]
Getting Meta-physical
It’s been four weeks since I’ve returned from Camp Widow in San Diego, however, the experience of that conference still resonates and inspires. It was enlightening to cross paths with nearly 600 individuals who’ve lost their spouses, or significant others; I gained knowledge, insight and growth from presenting my Writing Work Shop which only accounted […]
When Reality Hits
What a rollercoaster of a week it has been. Last Friday was both Erik’s and the twins’ birthdays. I used to love this day. How special it was that they shared a birthday with their father. How special Erik felt that he got his legacies as a birthday gift. Now I am conflicted about this […]
The Good Wife
There are a lot of weird thoughts that come into my head on the regular, as a person who has now been widowed for over a decade. The widowed mind is strange. Or maybe MY mind is just strange. I don’t know. What I DO know is my brain makes me laugh sometimes, and other […]
“Winding” My Own Business
It is hard for me to grasp that next month marks one year that I’ve posted here at The Widow’s Voice. Each one of the “Blogging Seven” – one writer for each day of the week – offers a personal account that has evolved around the circumstances that brought them (okay us) to the […]
Kinless
Lee’s death is a seminal event in my life. Her death can still trigger profound grief, yet I am simultaneously full of gratitude for our life together, which is preserved in happy memory. Without her, I deal daily with the reality that I am now over seventy years old and without a wife, or kids, […]
I Died Too
And another grief bomb hits. Earlier this week I went on my business as I normally do. The day-to-day activities that used to feel so impossible after Erik’s passing have now just become numbingly routine. But there I was standing in the middle of a grocery store with tears down my face again. A year […]