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Letters

Father’s Day Gift

June 20, 2017 by Mike Welker Leave a Comment

Father’s Day 2017. For once, we had a weekend day where there was nothing to do.  We had visited with both mine and Megan’s dads on Saturday, specifically planning to have an open day wedged into the seemingly constant stream of other events that have been taking time on our weekends together. Sarah was awake and moving well before i was (a…

Filed Under: Widowed, Widowed Parenting, Widowed Emotions, Miscellaneous Tagged With: kids, Daughter, emotions, Father's Day, Letters, Shelby, processing grief, widower, Mike Welker, widower with children

Cake and Beer

March 28, 2017 by Mike Welker Leave a Comment

In honor of Sarah’s late-fiance’s birthday, I’ve decided to write him a letter, man to man.  It’s something I haven’t done in awhile, and today, of all days, seems most appropriate.     Hey man, So, today’s your birthday.  It’s kinda hard to believe you would have been only 33 years old.  You had way too much left to do.  Hell,…

Filed Under: Widowed, Widowed Effect on Family/Friends, Widowed Birthdays, Widowed Emotions Tagged With: widower, friends, birthday, Mike Welker, loss, memorials, cliches, Letters, Drew, toasts

A Letter from Before, and Beyond

May 2, 2016 by Mike Welker Leave a Comment

The time has finally come to clean up the basement of my house.  When I say that, I don’t mean that I need to go through and organize some of Megan’s things.  I mean that the entire basement, full of god-knows-what from Megan, myself, and Shelby needs to be perused, bit by bit. When we moved to this house (for the second time, long story) 4…

Filed Under: Widowed, Widowed Parenting, Widowed Emotions, Widowed by Illness Tagged With: Mortality, Facing Death, widower, sadness, Long Term Illness, Mike Welker, widower with children, wishes, Letters

A Toast to Drew

March 29, 2016 by Mike Welker Leave a Comment

Drew,   It’s been over a year since I really started getting to know the person you were.  Yesterday was your birthday, and as Sarah and I had a beer, we toasted to you.  We sat quietly on the couch, tapped our bottles, and watched television for the rest of the evening.  I wanted to write you a note about things.   There weren’t any big…

Filed Under: Widowed, Widowed and Healing, Widowed and New Love, Widowed Birthdays Tagged With: Honoring, Letters, Toast, widower, dating, sarah treanor, birthday, Mike Welker

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