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Widowed Time

July 13, 2022 by Kathie Neff Leave a Comment

Round table with coffee and laptop

A Treasure to be Discovered 7am – the hot summer day barely peeks into my view…when you live in Cali, specifically Riverside, you can tell early on if it will be a hot one. I sit in the sort-of dining room / never quite an office / former in-between-nothing-room and put down words on a […]

Filed Under: Newly Widowed, Widowed, Widowed Emotions Tagged With: daily life, time, reflecting

Exploring

May 18, 2022 by Kathie Neff Leave a Comment

The Puzzle of Time Sitting at my desk, on May 17th (a Tuesday) at 8:48 pm Pacific Standard Time. The day flew by with little to count for it. Tomorrow we are mid-week as another week flies by. Time . . . Time is a wily character. It flies when you hope it will crawl. […]

Filed Under: Newly Widowed, Widowed, Widowed and Healing, Widowed Milestones Tagged With: decades together, grieving process, timeless, time

997, 998, 999, 1000

January 7, 2020 by Emma Pearson Leave a Comment

Today is Friday 3rd January 2020. 3/1/2020 Or 1/3/2020 if you’re somewhere in North America, but that looks plain wrong to me. And anyway, that would be my dad’s birthday, 1st March. Not my uncle’s birthday, 3rd January. Both healthy, sporty, fit 81-year old men. 82 now for my uncle.  Today is 1000 days since Mike died. In about ten minutes,…

Filed Under: Widowed Milestones, Multiple Losses Tagged With: widowed, multiple losses, ashes, time, Child Loss

It’s About Time

December 3, 2019 by Emma Pearson Leave a Comment

Emma Family

Yes. I know. I have a funny thing about time. And dates. I take time to reflect on time and what time is, or might be. Linear? Circular? Fluid? Fixed? Conceptual? Real? Polychronic? Monochronic? Measurable? Full of meaning and emotion? Or void of emotion and meaning? Time takes on such a different meaning, a different feel, post-loss. People say…

Filed Under: Widowed Emotions, Multiple Losses, Miscellaneous Tagged With: widowed sadness, multiple losses, time, grief and pain, Child Loss

Trigger Tropes

October 9, 2018 by Mike Welker Leave a Comment

I don’t have much to say today, other than a reminder (and perhaps, a warning to those of you reading that are still in the raw, early stages of your grief) that triggers can appear anywhere at random, no matter how “far out” you may think you are. We’re never truly “free” from our grief.  It may fade, in a way. We evolve and learn to…

Filed Under: Widowed, Widowed Parenting, Widowed Memories, Widowed Emotions, Widowed by Illness, Miscellaneous Tagged With: triggers, hospital, TV, widower, media, memories, medical, Long Term Illness, Mike Welker, widower with children, grief, time, movies

Half the Road of the First Year – Just Let It Flow

September 15, 2018 by Bryan Martin Leave a Comment

Tomorrow marks 6 months since Tin has passed. How am I already here? How does time move so slowly and so quickly at the same time? Honestly it is Life’s biggest blessing and curse. As I look back at these 6 months, I see a new road behind me that I have paved on my own. Of course there have been others to help me through the thick brush but I had…

Filed Under: LGBTQ+ Widowed, Miscellaneous Tagged With: LGBTQ Widowed, bryan martin, widowed travels, time, job

The Only and the Already

August 25, 2018 by Bryan Martin Leave a Comment

There are minutes, hours, days that seem to fly by while seconds seem to drag on forever. It has only and already been 4 months since Tin has passed – only and already. For those that don’t lose their “person”, it is hard to explain that time’s guidelines begin to bend in ways we never knew. Good days go fast. Bad days go slow. Yet the next…

Filed Under: Widowed Emotions, LGBTQ+ Widowed, Miscellaneous Tagged With: widowhood and guilt, expressions of grief, time, Regrets, LGBTQ Widowed, bryan martin, widowed loneliness

Once Upon a TIME

May 21, 2018 by Staci Sulin Leave a Comment

Still, After one year, six months, and six days, Almost every thought still begins with you. I am unable to live completely in the moment, And, I struggle to be present, Because, In my mind, I am endlessly travelling to a better place in time, Again and again. I return to this place, Where you existed once upon a time. ~Staci Sulin~     Time. …

Filed Under: Widowed and Healing, Miscellaneous Tagged With: long live love, living in the present, Live Life, lovinginseparation, StaciSulin, life, time, life after loss

1273

May 15, 2018 by Mike Welker Leave a Comment

1,273 days.     That’s how long I have been a widower, as of this very moment.  It’s an arbitrary number…over 1,000, not quite 1500. Not an even number, nor a prime number.  It doesn’t signify a specific milestone or even an approaching one. It’s just Tuesday, 1,273 days since Megan’s death.   I’ve now been through 3 of her…

Filed Under: Widowed, Widowed Parenting, Widowed Milestones, Widowed Emotions, Miscellaneous Tagged With: Experience, time, advice, How-to, Experts, Instructions, widower, milestones, Mike Welker, widower with children, grief

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November 28, 2017 by Mike Welker Leave a Comment

I’m on the other side of the three year mark at this point.  I can watch a movie where an actor is hospitalized, and not have to turn it off.  I can hear a song that reminds me of Megan, and get a little choked up, then laugh it off.  I can even pull all of our holiday decorations out from storage, observe the ornaments with Megan and I’s…

Filed Under: Widowed, Widowed Parenting, Widowed Milestones, Widowed Emotions, Miscellaneous Tagged With: Reminder, widower, Unexplainable, Mike Welker, widower with children, loss, grief, time, Event, milestone, missing, Trigger

Ramble On

November 7, 2017 by Mike Welker Leave a Comment

On February 5th, 2015, I wandered into a Hotel in Tampa, Florida, not quite sure if I was supposed to be there.  I had lost Megan less than three months prior, and I hadn’t honestly accepted the fact that I was now a Widower.  In the year leading up to it, I had spent more time sitting next to my dying wife than anything else.   Like many of…

Filed Under: Widowed, Widowed Emotions, Widowed Therapy, Widowed Community, Miscellaneous Tagged With: writing, perspective, Risks, questions, sharing, Ramble, Trying, widower, camp widow, Mike Welker, time

White Noise

July 25, 2017 by Mike Welker Leave a Comment

I’m going to (try to) keep this short, simple, and to-the-point.  Megan’s birthday was yesterday…the third since her death.  She would have been 36, which, for someone born in the early 80’s with Cystic Fibrosis, is twice the normal life expectancy.   The first thing I thought of when I opened my eyes in the morning yesterday was…

Filed Under: Widowed, Widowed Parenting, Widowed Birthdays, Widowed Milestones, Miscellaneous Tagged With: widower, birthday, Mike Welker, widower with children, time, perspective, 3 years, White Noise, Adaptation

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