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Comfortably Run

Posted on: May 24, 2022 | Posted by: Emma Pearson

Edward’s 53rd Birthday Comfortably run. No, not a typo.  Simply a not particularly brilliant nod to Pink Floyd’s “Comfortably Numb”. I do indeed mean that I am comfortably run. By a 10 km road run. I am more than a little bit pooped. I can’t remember the last time I did a 10 km. I […]

Categories: Child Loss, Widowed, Widowed Memories, Widowed and Healing, Widowed and New Love, Widowed Birthdays, Widowed Emotions, Widowed by Illness, Multiple Losses

Forever Young

Posted on: April 19, 2022 | Posted by: Emma Pearson

Main image by Angello Pro on Unsplash Today is not only Easter Day. It’s also our lovely Megan’s 21st birthday. Her sixth birthday without her father. Her 16th birthday was just nine days after her dad died. Finding a date for Mike’s funeral in 2017 was so very hard. There is a “minimum” time required […]

Categories: Child Loss, Widowed, Widowed Parenting, Widowed Memories, Widowed and New Love, Widowed Birthdays, Widowed Anniversaries, Widowed Milestones, Widowed Emotions, Widowed by Illness, Multiple Losses

Homesickness

Posted on: March 29, 2022 | Posted by: Emma Pearson

Main image by Rowan Heuvel on Unsplash In English, when we miss our homeland, we say, “I feel homesick”. In French, when we miss our homeland, we say, “J’ai le mal du pays”. Close enough, but not quite the same. Taken literally, the English version seems just to be about missing one’s “home” (parents, family, […]

Categories: Child Loss, Widowed, Widowed Memories, Widowed and Healing, Widowed Birthdays, Widowed Holidays, Widowed Emotions, Widowed by Illness, Multiple Losses, Miscellaneous

It is just a spider.

Posted on: March 11, 2022 | Posted by: Victoria Helmly

Yesterday, March 10th, Boris should have turned 31. But, as we all know, our people are forever frozen in time. In his case, he’s forever 27. I miss him so much every day, but on his birthday I always feel his absence a little more. For his birthday, wanted to share a memory and what […]

Categories: Widowed Memories, Widowed Birthdays

My Old Man

Posted on: December 16, 2021 | Posted by: Gary Ravitz

As a seven-year-old I wrote an essay entitled, “My Old Man,” for a second-grade writing assignment about our fathers, and instantly it had created a furor. Perhaps my teacher thought I was being disrespectful. If so, then she would have been wrong. However, I never received any explanation why she was discomfited. All I knew […]

Categories: Widowed Memories, Widowed Birthdays, Uncategorized

31.

Posted on: December 3, 2021 | Posted by: Victoria Helmly

Well, in a few days I turn 31. Last year’s birthday felt hard because I was entering a new decade that Boris will never experience. He is forever 27. Frozen in time. And now 31 feels so far from 27. Like I am a different person, entering a whole new world that is separate from […]

Categories: Widowed Birthdays, Widowed Emotions

Birthdays and Beginnings

Posted on: November 13, 2021 | Posted by: Bryan Martin

Today is my 43rd birthday. Clayton passed away just before turning 42. I’ve officially lived a full year longer then him. That brings up a lot of emotions and I know that’s normal. Four years ago I didn’t want to celebrate that I was alive another year. I felt tremendous guilt and I thought that […]

Categories: Widowed, Widowed & Unmarried, Widowed Memories, Widowed and Healing, Widowed and New Love, Widowed Birthdays, Widowed Anniversaries, Widowed Milestones, Widowed Emotions, LGBTQ+ Widowed

Sunrise over Chamonix after running through the night

Posted on: July 27, 2021 | Posted by: Emma Pearson

Photos my own, taken in Chamonix, France. Around the summer solstice this year, I was invited to write piece for “Like the Wind” magazine, founded by my friends Julie & Simon Freeman. Her “ask” was to write something running-related in.connection with the Sun. We had met them on a train in Switzerland in 2012 when […]

Categories: Widowed, Widowed Memories, Widowed Birthdays, Widowed by Illness, Multiple Losses, Uncategorized

Some Softer Dates

Posted on: April 6, 2021 | Posted by: Emma Pearson

All Photos my own It’s been a good week. Surprisingly good, for the time of year. A slew of special events and treats. Lots of variety – much more than in recent COVID-times – including a flight and a visit to another country! What’s not to love? And all with the underlay of loss and […]

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

Uncharted Territory

Posted on: March 30, 2021 | Posted by: Emma Pearson

Photos my own Yesterday I had my 54th birthday. An age Mike never made. He made 53 and 8 ½ months-ish. I was aware, to the date, 8th December 2020, when I became the age, to the actual day, that he died. Every day since then has felt even more like a gift. I noticed […]

Categories: Child Loss, Widowed, Widowed and New Love, Widowed Birthdays, Widowed Milestones, Widowed by Illness, Multiple Losses

Having All Your Birthdays in One Day – take 5

Posted on: March 22, 2021 | Posted by: Staci Sulin

It is Mike’s 65th birthday today. On March 22nd, I will always “celebrate” him.  There will never be a birthday of his that I don’t think tenderly of him. On his birthday I purposefully choose to remember the way he lived. I  celebrate the life and love we shared together. This is how I try […]

Categories: Widowed, Widowed Memories, Widowed and Healing, Widowed Birthdays, Widowed Milestones, Widowed Emotions, Widowed Suddenly, Uncategorized

Countdown to Panic Mode

Posted on: January 28, 2021 | Posted by: Kelley Lynn

On September 26th of this year, I will turn 50 years old. This has been freaking me out for awhile now. Turning 50. For multiple reasons. First, there’s the whole “I’m older than my dead husband ever got to be” thing, which has been weirding me out ever since I turned 46, which is the […]

Categories: Widowed, Widowed and Healing, Widowed and New Love, Widowed Birthdays

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