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Being Dead Is Not A Happy Anniversary

October 26, 2018 by Kelley Lynn Leave a Comment

Tomorrow is my wedding anniversary.  It would have been 12 years of lovely marriage.  Instead, we got 4 years and 9 months.  But who’s counting?  And does it even really matter anymore?  I mean, I think that no matter how many years it’s been since the last anniversary, this day will always hit me like a bag of bricks across the heart. I just…

Filed Under: Widowed Anniversaries Tagged With: widowhood and wedding anniversaries, kelley lynn, wedding anniversary, anniversaries

If What is Left, is This…then, yes~

March 13, 2018 by Alison Miller Leave a Comment

As 5 years without you, edges its’ way ever nearer to me, and as my heart and soul hear the shuffle of time coming closer, creeping past, zooming closer, flying past.. As these ten thousand years have passed, since his death, as each nanosecond passes in the here and now, I remember how he loved me, how I loved him. I remember his calm spirit and…

Filed Under: Widowed Memories, Widowed and Healing, Widowed Anniversaries, Military Widowed, Miscellaneous Tagged With: anniversaries, military, honor, husband, dancing, memories, love

Quietly Plotting

November 21, 2017 by Mike Welker Leave a Comment

November 19th.  It’s “the” date.  A week before Thanksgiving, and the start of the holiday season.  The weather has turned cold, the leaves are off the trees, halloween is over, My work begins to slow down, as does the seemingly endless string of summer and early fall weekends where we have plans with family and friends. For all intents…

Filed Under: Widowed, Widowed Parenting, Widowed Memories, Widowed Anniversaries, Widowed Holidays, Widowed Milestones, Widowed Emotions Tagged With: widower, memories, Mike Welker, widower with children, Holidays, anniversaries, triggers, three years, Numb, Death Date

Forget to Remember

August 8, 2017 by Mike Welker Leave a Comment

This past Sunday, August 6th, would have been Megan and I’s 12th anniversary.  Sarah, Shelby and I were camping, with Sarah’s sister, and as the morning light (and two dogs) woke me up, I immediately noted the significance of the date. Then I crawled out of the tent, took care of the dogs, and made some coffee. As I sat down for that first,…

Filed Under: Widowed, Widowed Parenting, Widowed Memories, Widowed Anniversaries, Widowed Milestones Tagged With: anniversaries, Vows, reminders, Suppressing, Ignoring, widower, milestones, memories, Mike Welker, widower with children

(Not) Every Day is Special

July 11, 2017 by Mike Welker Leave a Comment

July is here.  Megan’s birth month.  Although her birthday isn’t until late, the 24th, just the fact that it’s this month serves as a near constant reminder.  Every day in July, I consciously wonder how many days it is until the 24th.  It’s a passing thought mostly.  “It’s the 7th.  Hmm…17 days until her birthday.  Oh, it’s…

Filed Under: Widowed, Widowed Parenting, Widowed Memories, Widowed Birthdays, Widowed Anniversaries, Widowed Milestones Tagged With: widower, milestones, memories, birthdays, Mike Welker, widower with children, anniversaries, reminders

“Share your memories! (3 Years Ago)”

June 13, 2017 by Mike Welker Leave a Comment

“Share your memories! (3 years ago)”  Yeah, that’s what Facebook likes to do to me every year on June 9th.  It helpfully pops up a notification, showing me a picture I took on that date in 2014, that I might like to share with the world.  It’s such a heartwarming gesture by the team at Facebook (or timehop, or Google Photos, or any other…

Filed Under: Widowed, Widowed Parenting, Widowed Memories, Widowed Anniversaries Tagged With: Journals, Google, Photos, widower, memories, Mike Welker, widower with children, anniversaries, reminders, facebook, Logs

Just when the Caterpillar Thought the World was Over

January 11, 2016 by Mike Welker Leave a Comment

It has been an incredibly warm winter here in Ohio, one of the warmest on record.  Christmas came and went with not only a lack of snow, but mud and rain; something we are not entirely used to in the waning days of the year.  By no means is every Christmas white, but it is almost always cold.   I can remember the weather final few weeks of the…

Filed Under: Widowed, Widowed Parenting, Widowed Anniversaries, Widowed by Illness Tagged With: widower with children, anniversaries, Thankfulness, Transplant, widower, Long Term Illness, Mike Welker

Not Growing Old Together

September 25, 2015 by Kelley Lynn Leave a Comment

Something I say to my grief-therapist often lately, is that I feel like I’m generally doing “okay”, as long as I don’t think about the future, or let my mind wander there. I feel okay or sometimes even good, as long as I can stay in the present. Do you know what she said back to me? She said: “So stay in the present.” Oh, okay then. Guess I’m done…

Filed Under: Widowed Birthdays, Widowed Anniversaries, Widowed Suddenly Tagged With: Don Shepherd, sudden death, widowed young, growing old together, growing old alone, decades together, teammates in life, birthdays, kelley lynn, anniversaries

The Anger isn’t as Important as the Love

August 8, 2015 by Rebecca Collins Leave a Comment

Last weekend I attended the wedding of one of my husband’s closest friends.  This happened to fall on the second anniversary of his funeral, and a week after his anniversary.  I always knew it was going to be a difficult time. I knew it would hurt and bring up all kinds of triggers, sad thoughts and memories.  But somehow, despite knowing…

Filed Under: Widowed, Widowed Anniversaries, Widowed Milestones, Widowed Emotions, Widowed by Suicide, Miscellaneous Tagged With: anniversaries, weddings, anger, rebecca collins, aussie widow, suicide widow, third year, second year, young widow

Without Him In It

July 6, 2015 by Tricia Bratton Leave a Comment

This week marked another anniversary in the long and winding journey without my husband—his 65th birthday, on July the 2nd.  Last year, his birthday came less than a month after he died, and I can’t say I even remember it. I had returned to work the day before, and I must have walked through my day in that office like a zombie on auto-pilot,…

Filed Under: Widowed, Widowed Birthdays, Widowed Anniversaries, Widowed Suddenly Tagged With: widowed suddenly, widow, birthday, anniversaries, tricia bratton

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