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Trips

Dormant Memories

January 16, 2018 by Mike Welker Leave a Comment

If you’ve read Sarah’s Post this past Sunday, then you are aware that she and I (and Shelby) were in Corpus Christi, Texas, over an extended weekend.  One of her longest and closest friends was marrying, and Sarah herself was a bridesmaid.  In that regards, I wasn’t a widower this past weekend.  I was the “second partner” of a widow.

Filed Under: Widowed, Widowed Memories, Widowed and New Love, Widowed Emotions, Miscellaneous Tagged With: memories, Trips, dating, Return, sarah treanor, Home Town, Stress, Mike Welker, love, triggers, Wedding, new partner, Dating a Widow, widower, reminders

Hit the Road

August 15, 2017 by Mike Welker Leave a Comment

In about 36 hours, Shelby, Sarah and I are hitting the road.  We’re not going to Texas, or the beach, or New York, or to visit my parents.  We’re not planning this trip amongst anyone other than ourselves.  I neither desired or solicited anyone else’s input with regards to our plans, other than Sarah and Shelby.  We’re headed to the…

Filed Under: Widowed, Widowed Parenting, Widowed Effect on Family/Friends, Miscellaneous Tagged With: widower with children, Obligations, Vacation, Independence, Trips, Deeper Meaning, widower, family, Mike Welker

New Year’s Resolution

January 2, 2017 by Mike Welker Leave a Comment

 It’s 2017.  This is the 35th time that my body has traveled around the sun on this little rock called earth.  In those 35 trips, I’ve been witness and participant to milestones of education and career, love and marriage, childbirth and parenting, sickness, and death.  I’ve seen friendships both grow and wither.  I’ve evolved from a…

Filed Under: Widowed, Widowed Holidays, Widowed Therapy, Miscellaneous Tagged With: widower, Absence, Mike Welker, Familiar Places, Home, being oneself, Nature, sense of self, Hiking, Trips, new year, resolutions, solitude, Returning, Failed plans

Take me Home, Country Roads

November 29, 2016 by Mike Welker Leave a Comment

“I hear her voice in the morning hour, she calls me, the radio reminds me of my home far away.And driving down the road I get a feeling that I should have been home yesterday, yesterday.Country roads, take me home to the place I belong.West Virginia, mountain mamma, take me home, country roads.” – John Denver In the purest, most technical…

Filed Under: Widowed, Widowed Therapy, Miscellaneous Tagged With: Nature, Hiking, Trips, solitude, Returning, Failed plans, Absence, Familiar Places, widower, Mike Welker, Home

Choose to Trust

May 31, 2016 by Mike Welker Leave a Comment

I’ve just returned from Arkansas with Sarah, after a 14 hour drive.  It is with tired eyes that I briefly write this morning, but yet, a deliriously happy heart.  We planned this trip to a tree house in Eureka Springs, AR over a year ago, not long after we met.  Circumstances at the time meant that we needed to book this a year in advance,…

Filed Under: Widowed, Widowed and New Love, Miscellaneous Tagged With: widower, dating, Mike Welker, new relationships, Trips, Sarah Treanor. loving both

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