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It’s Not Guilt, It’s Sadness

August 10, 2018 by Kelley Lynn Leave a Comment

So it’s been 7 years since my beautiful husband left for work one morning, and never came home. Seven years since his shocking and sudden death. Seven years of living this life in the “after” of painful and life-changing loss. It’s a long time, and it isn’t. It’s forever, and it’s also ten seconds. In all of this time living with the death of my…

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Pixel Memories

July 17, 2018 by Mike Welker Leave a Comment

Something that Megan and I did every year or two was get family photos taken.  While we had thousands of “candid” pictures, taken from our phones or old point-and-shoot devices, we were never posed, and neither of us were exactly professional photographers.  We would make the appointment, pack up a few various pieces of clothing, and head to…

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Life Getting in the Way

July 18, 2017 by Mike Welker Leave a Comment

It’s not exactly a secret that sometimes, I just can’t foresee a good subject for my weekly writings here.  I’ll pine over ideas to see if they spark something, thinking about if there were any milestones, anniversaries, or triggers in the past week.  More often than not, I’ll find a nugget of something and expand upon it, and sometimes,…

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Blunting the Knife

November 22, 2016 by Mike Welker Leave a Comment

Saturday marked two years since Megan’s death.   I could sit down to write about how it was a horrible weekend, curling into the fetal position and crying more often than not.  I could note how the minute I woke up, a tightness seized in my chest and a chill shot through my body.  I could give an anecdote about walking through our dining…

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Ticking Clock

October 29, 2016 by Kaiti Wallace Leave a Comment

I vividly remember logging onto Facebook and staring at his messenger icon hoping he would come online. That it was all a misunderstanding and it wasn’t real. Last active… The hours ticked over into days, then into weeks. Now it has almost been 11 months. Remembering it as though it were yesterday. Today I still feel the longing, waiting and…

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My Happiness List

August 27, 2016 by Kaiti Wallace Leave a Comment

Over the weekend I attended John’s son’s swimming lesson. He jumped off the diving board for the first time. Every first brings with it pride for my children along with the inevitable thought, John is missing out or we are missing out on experiencing this first with him. Whichever way you look at it, it’s unfair that he is not here. I left…

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Writers Block

February 1, 2016 by Mike Welker Leave a Comment

What should I write about today?  Nature?  No, I am beginning to sound like a broken record, and I haven’t hiked in the past week.  How about Sarah?  Well, I’ve got a good subject for NEXT week, but that doesn’t help me right now..     OK, how about Megan’s disease?  I mean, I went through a lot with that, but really, it just sucks.

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Happy New Year

January 4, 2016 by Mike Welker Leave a Comment

I generally try to write my posts in advance, which gives me a bit of time to pore over them and change things up here and there before it goes public.  This week, I did just that, writing a post about the five year anniversary of Megan’s lung transplant, which is Wednesday, the 6th, and what it meant to me.   Then, at the eleventh hour, I…

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Decade

August 4, 2015 by Mike Welker Leave a Comment

Thursday, August 6th, would have been Megan and I’s 10th wedding anniversary.  A full decade. When I sit quietly to reflect on this, I suppose it would be a fitting end to the gauntlet I’ve been running the past few weeks.  After a few months of relatively no significant milestones; her birthday, a trip to Myrtle Beach to spread her ashes,…

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Silver Linings Playbook

July 21, 2015 by Mike Welker Leave a Comment

I’ve noted a shift in my overall attitude since Megan’s death.  I was somewhat of a pessimist in years past; always finding the bad news in any nugget of information that may have come my way.  Perhaps it was the shock of losing my wife that finally changed my outlook in everyday life.  I now take events or news with a different eye, one…

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