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Widowed Birthdays

Just Another Birthday

Posted on: June 26, 2025 | Posted by: Gary Ravitz

Tomorrow is my 74th birthday. These days, my earliest birthday memory is vague, but it involved competing birthday parties for me and a classmate when we were either five or six years old. Naturally, the real competition was between our mothers, who jousted over which party would take place earlier on Saturday afternoon. I don’t […]

Categories: Widowed Birthdays

Revisiting the Month of June

Posted on: June 5, 2025 | Posted by: Gary Ravitz

Today’s post is a reprint from June 2024 with a few slight alterations. You might surmise that June is my funkiest month, and you would be correct.  Nothing much has changed in a year, except I plan to turn seventy-four…. *** According to one poll (https://today..ougov.com/society/articles/45312-americans-favorite-and-least-favorite-months-year), thirty-nine percent of adult Americans love the month of […]

Categories: Widowed Memories, Widowed Birthdays, Widowed Anniversaries

A happy guy with a wine glass sitting outside

New Traditions

Posted on: May 9, 2025 | Posted by: Sherry Holub

(Originally posted this in 2024 for Mario’s birthday. I didn’t get to really celebrate this year because I had too many client meetings that day, but am hoping to pick the tradition back up next year.) Just about anyone who’s lost someone will tell you that birthdays of that lost person are tough. Birthdays just […]

Categories: Widowed, Widowed Memories, Widowed Birthdays, Widowed Emotions, Miscellaneous

My Late Partner’s Posthumous Birthdays

Posted on: April 27, 2025 | Posted by: Grace Villafuerte

Lynn’s birthday was this past week – the 11th birthday since she passed. Wow – I actually had to count it out on my hand a few times just now before I could believe it. (She passed in December 2014… so that makes it 11 years. Is that really right?!) It’s hard to grasp how […]

Categories: Widowed, Widowed Memories, Widowed Birthdays, Widowed Milestones, LGBTQ+ Widowed, Miscellaneous

Lee is Having Another Birthday

Posted on: March 27, 2025 | Posted by: Gary Ravitz

Lola and I returned home from Tucson around ten days ago.  Predictably, at the end, we were greeted by bumper-to-bumper traffic conditions amidst interminable local construction projects that extended our long road trip by ninety extra, stressful minutes, wintery temperatures, gusty winds, and thick, overcast skies.  Ah, it’s good to be home again. My calendar […]

Categories: Widowed and New Love, Widowed Birthdays

Spay it Forward

Posted on: February 22, 2025 | Posted by: Lisa Begin-Kruysman

Yesterday marked the one-year anniversary of my mother’s passing. On February 21st last year, I was on my way up north to what I’d hoped would be some quiet final moments with her as her condition had worsened and she’d been released to the care of my brother John’s family in New York State. But, […]

Categories: Widowed Memories, Widowed Birthdays, Widowed Milestones, Miscellaneous, Uncategorized

The Art of Being Nowhere

Posted on: February 8, 2025 | Posted by: Lisa Begin-Kruysman

I thank the many who reached out last week to help me honor the birthday of my late husband, Rich. I won’t reveal his age because he will haunt me.  When I met Rich he was just turning 50. He and I participated in a large and very popular art event and fundraiser each year […]

Categories: Widowed Birthdays, Widowed Milestones, Uncategorized

Moving Matters

Posted on: February 1, 2025 | Posted by: Lisa Begin-Kruysman

Happy February First, and “Rabbit Rabbit” Day. It’s believed by some that by saying those words upon waking the first day of a new month (or before noon) you will experience good fortune throughout the month. It is said to be an Old English custom and I will leave you to your research. Hop to […]

Categories: Widowed Memories, Widowed Birthdays, Widowed Milestones, Miscellaneous, Uncategorized

Route 66 and a Trip Around the Sun

Posted on: January 11, 2025 | Posted by: Lisa Begin-Kruysman

  The first week of any new year can bring an unsettling mix of relief, new direction and incentive, angst, apathy and procrastination. Even if your holiday season was emotionally challenging with some bouts of nostalgic melancholy, the quiet inertia of the post-holiday season can be a let down when the world asks us to […]

Categories: Widowed Birthdays, Widowed Milestones, Widowed Emotions, Miscellaneous, Uncategorized

Signs From Nashville

Posted on: November 18, 2024 | Posted by: Emily Vielhauer

Last weekend I went to Nashville for a belated birthday trip. One of my best friends from college and I flew in to meet there. The trip was for us, but I knew it would bear reminders of Tony at every turn. I enjoy some country music and prefer the 90’s era from my high […]

Categories: Widowed, Widowed Memories, Widowed and Healing, Widowed Birthdays, Widowed Milestones, Widowed Emotions, Widowed Signs from Loved One, Widowed Suddenly, Widowed by Suicide

Birthday Grief

Posted on: November 11, 2024 | Posted by: Emily Vielhauer

Each year Tony’s birthday seems to hit me differently. Some people say the first year after losing someone is a fog. I think it only looks that way in hindsight. The first year is an onslaught of pain; around every corner is a reminder, each turn of the calendar is a new first without. Looking […]

Categories: Widowed, Widowed Effect on Family/Friends, Widowed Memories, Widowed and Healing, Widowed Birthdays, Widowed Milestones, Widowed Emotions, Widowed by Suicide, Uncategorized

Happy Birthday Little Q

Posted on: October 12, 2024 | Posted by: Mary Moore Hughes

Welcome Saturday readers! This is Mary Moore Hughes posting for Lisa who is in the recovery stages of Hurricane Milton. She has no power or internet but they are ok! Since Milton arrived the day her little Quint turned 3, I am sharing a re-post of her birthday post for Quint last year. Sending love […]

Categories: Widowed Birthdays

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