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Not Quite Arrived

Posted on: February 2, 2023 | Posted by: Gary Ravitz

By the time I exit the State of Missouri I’ve come to appreciate John Steinbeck’s astute observation, based on his own travels, that our country’s interstate highway system may be a fine solution for moving goods but it’s a lousy way to take in the countryside. Just past Joplin, Missouri, Interstate 40 crosses into the […]

Categories: Widowed and Healing, Miscellaneous, Uncategorized

What does hope look like for me now?

Posted on: January 31, 2023 | Posted by: Emma Pearson

Image by precious widbud Charlotte MacNaughton – Yellowknife, Canada’s Northwest Territories (Jan 2023) Way back when, back in my life before, and soon after I had started up my business, Kaleidoscope Development, I wrote a blogpost on “Hope”. It was 21st April 2014. I actually called it, “Hope – Part One”, and a week later, […]

Categories: Child Loss, Widowed, Widowed and Healing, Widowed Emotions, Widowed by Illness, Multiple Losses

Getting Back

Posted on: January 28, 2023 | Posted by: Lisa Begin-Kruysman

One of the biggest challenges of adjusting to life as a widow is trying to hold on to the memory of the life you had as part of a long-time couple while trying to remember the “Me” before “We”. In my case, recalling the latter is tied closely to the former. Last week I started […]

Categories: Widowed Memories, Widowed and Healing, Widowed Anniversaries, Widowed Emotions, Widowed Therapy, Miscellaneous

Joshua Tree

Posted on: January 27, 2023 | Posted by: Victoria Helmly

This month I embarked on a solo trip for fun to Los Angeles and Palm Springs. I have done this once before. In 2019, before I started my Ph.D. program I went to Puerto Rico by myself. It was freeing and exciting, but there were lonely parts and times when I wished I had someone […]

Categories: Widowed, Widowed and Healing

On the Road

Posted on: January 26, 2023 | Posted by: Gary Ravitz

I had intended to publish last Thursday, as usual, but then experienced technical issues. Such are the vagaries of being off on the road. As you can see, I’m back online today and anxious to make up for lost time. *** After a wonderful extended visit with Robyn, we went our separate ways before dawn […]

Categories: Widowed and Healing, Miscellaneous, Uncategorized

Greek Tragedy

Posted on: January 23, 2023 | Posted by: Emily Vielhauer

Losing Tony hasn’t really made me question who I am as a person, but it has made me question how I should spend my time. As a couple, we each participated in activities that the other person wouldn’t sign up for alone. I’ve been to NASCAR races, BBQ contests, and attempted to fish. None of […]

Categories: Widowed, Widowed Memories, Widowed and Healing, Widowed Emotions, Widowed Suddenly, Widowed by Suicide, Uncategorized

Powering Through 

Posted on: January 21, 2023 | Posted by: Lisa Begin-Kruysman

In the spring of 2014, I was diagnosed with a thyroid disease called Hashimoto’s Thyroiditis. My doctor proclaimed it was the worst case he’d ever seen and classified my case as Myxedema, another term for severely advanced hypothyroidism, a condition that occurs when your body doesn’t produce enough thyroid hormone. As January is Thyroid Awareness […]

Categories: Widowed Effect on Family/Friends, Widowed and Healing, Widowed Therapy, Miscellaneous

Mapping Grief:

Posted on: January 18, 2023 | Posted by: Kathie Neff

A Man Called Otto. We first meet Otto six months after his wife’s death. With no apparent family, and having cut ties with those he was once close with, a grief-stricken Otto is isolated and in constant pain. He rages like a wounded bull as he goes about his daily life in the tiny neighborhood […]

Categories: Newly Widowed, Widowed, Widowed and Healing, Widowed Emotions, Widowed Signs from Loved One

In Praise of Love and Mountains

Posted on: January 17, 2023 | Posted by: Emma Pearson

Photo and Art by Véronique Balcerzak After Mike died, I made an effort, particularly at Christmastime, to ensure there was a gift from him, not only for each of the kids, but also for myself. The first year, it was soft toy teddys made from his t-shirts. I remember that we needed some kind of […]

Categories: Child Loss, Widowed, Widowed Effect on Family/Friends, Widowed Memories, Widowed and Healing, Widowed and New Love, Widowed Holidays, Widowed by Illness, Multiple Losses

Word of the Year

Posted on: January 16, 2023 | Posted by: Emily Vielhauer

In my very first post here I said I’ve never been a New Year resolution kind of gal. I still maintain that I am not. For me, the resolutions are too specific and confined that make me feel destined to fail. As a lifelong perfectionist failure is way outside my comfort zone. Over the last […]

Categories: Widowed, Widowed Parenting, Widowed and Healing, Widowed Holidays, Widowed Emotions

Countdown

Posted on: January 12, 2023 | Posted by: Gary Ravitz

It was supposed to have been Costa Rica. Or it could have been Panama. Maybe Ecuador, or even Nicaragua. Our long planned journey of a lifetime: to experience the joys of eternal spring, high in the green coffee mountains of Boquete; or, to awaken at dawn in the Osa to the calls of the howlers […]

Categories: Widowed and Healing, Widowed and New Love, Miscellaneous, Uncategorized

Resilience

Posted on: January 11, 2023 | Posted by: Kathie Neff

What is resilience? the Sea asked the Rock   Ask the tree the Rock replied   What is Resilience? the Sea asked the Tree   We are it the Tree replied Sky, Tree, Plants, Rock, and Sea   each in our own way. Keep going.      

Categories: Newly Widowed, Widowed, Widowed and Healing, Widowed Community

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