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Sundays are the Most Nostalgic

Posted on: May 18, 2025 | Posted by: Grace Villafuerte

Sunday afternoons are sometimes still the most nostalgic and bittersweet times. I frequently have packed weekends, often a little too “peopley.” And it is a relief to get to Sunday evening, to pause, rest, and get into that somewhat resistant mindset of, “the weekend is over and Monday is looming.” My bones still remember with […]

Categories: Widowed, Widowed Memories, Widowed and Healing, Widowed Emotions, LGBTQ+ Widowed

Chalkboard with someone's bucket list.

A 2012 Facebook Post . . .

Posted on: May 13, 2025 | Posted by: Kathie Neff

. . . how I’m doing on that list. Some 13 years past, the Facebook posts saved as “memories” are interesting to read. My Grandmother passed away at 83 on Holy Saturday. My Aunt Cissie passed away at 99 on Good Friday (April 6, 2012 at 5am). That leaves Easter Sunday for me at 105…when […]

Categories: Widowed, Widowed Memories, Widowed and Healing, Widowed Holidays, Widowed Milestones, Widowed Emotions, Widowed Community

Friendship is an Honor

Posted on: May 12, 2025 | Posted by: Emily Vielhauer

Saturday, I had the pleasure of catching up with two of my friends from college. One friend lives locally but we don’t see each other nearly often as we should. My other friend lives in a coastal city out east. I hadn’t seen her in 3 years, but they hadn’t seen each other in 10 […]

Categories: Widowed, Widowed Effect on Family/Friends, Widowed and Healing, Widowed Emotions, Widowed by Suicide, Miscellaneous

A Car as a Time Capsule

Posted on: May 11, 2025 | Posted by: Grace Villafuerte

Lynn and I met a year before we were officially a couple. For a year, we steadily became closer friends. (Honestly, I was secretly dating her for that year, but she didn’t know it…) Lynn bought a brand new, Silver, 2005 Toyota Scion xA that year. Her Golden Retriever had passed away shortly before she […]

Categories: Widowed, Widowed and Healing, Widowed Belongings, LGBTQ+ Widowed, Miscellaneous

Couple standing in front of 1952 O'Keefe & Merritt

The Season of Time

Posted on: May 7, 2025 | Posted by: Kathie Neff

What is time, anyway? Time is how we measure and make sense of change. At its core, time is a concept we use to track the sequence and duration of events. It’s how we understand that one thing happens before or after another and how long things last. -Chatgpt Time is both strict and magical. […]

Categories: Widowed Memories, Widowed and Healing, Widowed Milestones, Widowed Emotions, Widowed Signs from Loved One, Widowed Community, Widowed by Illness

Me Day

Posted on: May 5, 2025 | Posted by: Emily Vielhauer

I took a last-minute vacation day last week to spend the day alone. The decision came after looking at the calendar and realizing almost every day between now and the end of school is occupied with kid activities. Once school is over, I’ll have three feral boys in my space all day, every day. I […]

Categories: Widowed, Widowed Parenting, Widowed and Healing, Widowed Emotions, Widowed Therapy, Widowed by Suicide

My Evolving Relationship with Old Routines

Posted on: May 4, 2025 | Posted by: Grace Villafuerte

I started running again the past week. My usual route, 3 miles around the lake a few minutes from my house, and the neighborhood I grew up in. This has been my usual nightly running route on and off for the past 15+ years, though it’s a trail I have been traversing since I was […]

Categories: Widowed, Widowed and Healing, Widowed Therapy, LGBTQ+ Widowed, Miscellaneous

A rose bud broken into many pieces on the ground.

The Liminal Space

Posted on: April 30, 2025 | Posted by: Kathie Neff

Of Loss I’m writing today from a disoriented space of transition. A liminal space. It is said that grief is such a place. The location of disorientation today is loss. It is a practical loss; yet, still a condition worthy of discussion for those in grief. Prior to losing Dan, I would have criticized myself […]

Categories: Widowed, Widowed and Healing, Widowed Emotions, Widowed Community

Back to Therapy

Posted on: April 28, 2025 | Posted by: Emily Vielhauer

In response to feeling overwhelmed lately, I have been buying books and exploring therapy options. It started with ‘The Let Them Theory’ by Mel Robbins a few months ago and I wrote a post on that. Now I’m reading ‘What Happened To You?’ by Bruce D. Perry, M.D., Ph.D. and Oprah Winfrey. I have made […]

Categories: Widowed, Widowed Parenting, Widowed and Healing, Widowed Emotions, Widowed Signs from Loved One, Widowed Therapy, Widowed Suddenly, Widowed by Suicide

Words that describe the gifts of Camp Widow.

Thinking of Those

Posted on: April 23, 2025 | Posted by: Kathie Neff

Arriving in Edmonds Tomorrow Remembering Camp Widow Denver Gives Me Hope.   I am packing and remembering. I’m recalling a tender conversation with a woman under the stairwell. She drove 18 hours to see if Camp Widow could help her manage the grief. What can possibly help when our person is gone? When facing a […]

Categories: Widowed, Widowed Memories, Widowed and Healing, Widowed Milestones, Widowed Emotions, Widowed Community

The Living Bucketlist

Posted on: April 22, 2025 | Posted by: Diana Mosson

What a world. The twins and I have been on back-to-back trips for the last few months. We recently just got back this past Saturday from a trip to Japan and South Korea and wow, what a trip it was. It was another bucketlist item that Erik and I had. As I continue to travel […]

Categories: Widowed, Widowed Parenting, Widowed Effect on Family/Friends, Widowed Memories, Widowed and Healing, Widowed Emotions, Widowed Suddenly, Widowed by Suicide

Seasonal Awareness

Posted on: April 19, 2025 | Posted by: Lisa Begin-Kruysman

My Awareness Calendar reminds me that April, among other things, contains the Awareness Observances of Adopt a Greyhound Month, Global Volunteer Month, Library Snapshot Month, National Pet Month, and Couple Appreciation Month. This is just a few from a field of 100 plus observances currently on record! But for the purposes of this column, I […]

Categories: Widowed Memories, Widowed and Healing, Widowed Holidays, Widowed Milestones

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