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widowed death anniversary

Knowing Ahead

January 5, 2020 by Mike Welker Leave a Comment

The holiday season is over.  Starting in early November, every year, I begin pondering Megan’s death at an elevated rate, leading up to the anniversary of it.  With Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Year’s Day all occurring in the weeks just after, it’s two months of absolute stress, that nobody seems to understand, including myself.  My…

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A Christmas to Remember

December 15, 2019 by Mike Welker Leave a Comment

You would think that becoming widowed just before the holiday season could make said holidays an overbearing mixture of grief, stress, and memories going forward.  That remembering that first Christmas without Megan, watching a seven-year-old Shelby bounding down the stairs to a room in which her father was already bawling, would not be the ideal…

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Window to Grieve

November 17, 2019 by Mike Welker Leave a Comment

One week ago, we wrapped up what was easily the busiest Camp Widow I’ve ever taken part in.  In two days, it will be the five year anniversary of Megan’s death. Winter has blown into northeast Ohio early this year, with our first snow coming in before the leaves had even had the chance to fall off of the trees.  The holidays will be here…

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Another Year Without You

November 4, 2019 by Staci Sulin Leave a Comment

Soon I  will have been your Widow for three years.  Should I be good at widowing now?  Should this feel “normal” to me now?   Who knows.  No one gave me a manual when you died.  So, I am going by feel. I fumble forward on instinct.       I hate your death date.  November 15th, 2016 – you took your last breath and I fought to catch…

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First Year as a Widow

October 31, 2019 by Mari Posa Leave a Comment

Dear Readers, I have officially hit my first year as a widow and I would like to share some of my experiences and lessons learned during this unimaginable time. 1. You are stronger more than you could have ever imagined. Especially during the times where you feel like your heart is going to stop because it hurts so much and you feel you can’t…

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Approaching a Year

October 17, 2019 by Mari Posa 1 Comment

Pumpkin Patch

These past few weeks have been incredibly hard for me. I’ve been reliving what happened last year. It’s not that I welcome these thoughts, it’s that my brain keeps bringing them up. I remember the last lunch that we had as a family, just the day before my husband’s accident. I remember my daughter and I went to go have lunch with at his…

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Diagnoses Date

October 5, 2019 by Bryan Martin 1 Comment

We all know the dreaded dates. The anniversary of their death, birthdays, togetherness anniversaries, holidays but there’s one more on my list that adds another dark mark on my year – His diagnosis date.Tin just felt off like he had the flu or something. No strange symptoms. No sudden pains. Just an off feeling. He did complain that he felt…

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1000

August 12, 2019 by Staci Sulin Leave a Comment

The heart knows… I had a feeling it was getting close.  So, I looked up how long Mike has been dead. And, there it was, 1,000 days exactly.  I KNEW it.  And, I didn’t know it because I am some sort of math whiz.  Nope.  I felt it in my heart.  And, the computer confirmed what my heart already knew.  Monday August 12th, 2019 I will have…

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Hola Amigo

June 18, 2019 by Mike Welker Leave a Comment

Hey man, Well, it’s that time of year again.  I’m here in Texas, with Sarah and Shelby, to celebrate you.  This is what, year…five for me? That seems crazy. We went to your grave today, and it’s I guess looking good as ever.  The little heart shaped rocks, the trinkets…the helicopters; they’re all still there. Your mom had some…

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Death Sucks

June 4, 2019 by Mike Welker Leave a Comment

Does anyone else feel like they pay less attention to deaths these days?  Hear me out. I’ve noticed this trend, at least in me, of learning of a person that might have been significant to me has died.  I note it, give it a quick “that sucks, for their widow”, and go about my business. Tim Conway (a comedian I grew up admiring), Bart Starr…

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Beginning my New Year~

May 8, 2019 by Alison Miller Leave a Comment

My new year begins each April 21. That’s the date of Chuck’s death. It’s the only new year that carries any meaning for me. What do I care about January 1?  April 21 is the day my life incinerated and I was eviscerated. So it stands to reason, at least in my mind, that this is the day where I look back, and, insofar as I’m able, look ahead.I knew,…

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6 Years of Tired~

April 24, 2019 by Alison Miller Leave a Comment

This isn’t going to be an upbeat blog. No apologies for that, but fair warning. I don’t have it in me today.Yesterday was 6 years since Chuck died. I wonder why I can’t seem to get wherever it is I’m supposed to get. In this widowed life, I mean. It’s felt, since I was first widowed, like I’ve had to continually strive to be somewhere in the…

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