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taking chances

My Dare to the Universe

October 3, 2018 by Alison Miller Leave a Comment

The mere idea of dipping my feet into the dating scene, no matter how lonely I am at any given point, invokes in me a huge HELL NO!  The quantity of nightmare stories I’ve heard from the widowed community about the quality of people in that scene, both male and female and what they’re looking for…no, please. There is, I hear, that 1% chance…

Filed Under: Widowed and New Love, Miscellaneous Tagged With: widowed new love, alison miller, dating after widowhood, taking chances

Live Life

October 2, 2017 by Wendy Saint-Onge Leave a Comment

Live life. Good advice, right?  I have always liked to pass that piece of advice onto my kids whenever I had the opportunity.  “Take time off before University.  Go see the world.  Live your life while you can.”  That’s what we used to say to them. We had all sorts of tidbits of advice which included, “Happiness is a choice, so choose…

Filed Under: Miscellaneous Tagged With: Ben The Titan, sky diving, taking chances, taking risks, Live Life, strong, wendy saint-onge

Always Surprise Yourself

September 2, 2017 by Sarah Treanor and Mike Welker Leave a Comment

I think one of the hardest things about losing people we love, is that in a way, we lose a part of our own history when they die. Or at least, we lose one of our living, breathing connections to that history. Without those connections to the history of ourselves, I’m learning it can be easy to get lost. I think this has been especially hard…

Filed Under: Widowed, Widowed and Healing, Widowed Emotions, Miscellaneous Tagged With: trying new things, surprise yourself, challenging yourself, reconnection to self, widow, sarah treanor, loss, grief, taking chances, growth, learning

Outside the Walls of “Safety”

December 4, 2016 by Sarah Treanor and Mike Welker Leave a Comment

Mike left around 3am Saturday morning, headed out to West Virginia. It’s his first major solo backpacking trip since we’ve been together. Three nights out in the mountains alone, with no cell service. Our only form of contact has been a satellite device that lets him send me preset “all is well” messages with his location every few hours (this…

Filed Under: Widowed, Widowed and New Love, Widowed Emotions, Miscellaneous Tagged With: grief, new love, taking chances, death, Risks, bereavement, widow, sarah treanor, loss

Changing the Walls

June 5, 2016 by Sarah Treanor and Mike Welker Leave a Comment

Yesterday, we painted a wall. To me, this was no ordinary wall, this was the last major wall in the downstairs of Mike’s house to change since Megan died. Now, when you look through the living room, dining and kitchen, all of it has a totally new color scheme from when she was living. Which leads me to talk about a very touchy aspect of…

Filed Under: Widowed, Widowed and Healing, Widowed and New Love, Widowed Emotions, Miscellaneous Tagged With: fear, sarah treanor, making plans, loss, facing, grief, confronting, living on, painting walls, taking chances, conquering fears, death, moving forward, embracing life, new life, new relationships, widow

Making Plans Anyway

May 29, 2016 by Sarah Treanor and Mike Welker Leave a Comment

This morning I’m sitting some fifteen feet up in the air surrounded by woods, near the northern border of Arkansas, and it seems no accident that the book I brought with me to read is titled “The Gifts of Imperfection”. A few days ago, Mike and I made the 14 hour drive down to Eureka Springs. Why? To stay in a treehouse cottage, which has always…

Filed Under: Widowed, Widowed and Healing, Widowed and New Love, Widowed Milestones, Widowed Emotions, Miscellaneous Tagged With: milestones, new relationships, widow, fear, sarah treanor, making plans, loss, facing, grief, confronting, living on, taking chances, death, moving forward, embracing life, new life

Signs of Flight

February 9, 2014 by Sarah Treanor and Mike Welker Leave a Comment

Since Drew was a helicopter pilot, helicopters and anything to do with flying are always the biggest signs I get from him. I even found a tiny toy helicopter in this shack on the island of Barbados last spring while vacationing there with his family. It had washed up on the beach and the guy collected it to sell in his shop. No joke!And just a few…

Filed Under: Widowed, Widowed Signs from Loved One, Miscellaneous Tagged With: widow, sarah treanor, taking chances, afterlife, Signs, art, Flight, feeling alive

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