I recently started a ministry to widows at my church. As I was preparing for my meeting during this Thanksgiving, I came across a wonderful story from history I never knew. Many of us have heard President Lincoln’s Thanksgiving Proclamation, ...
To our non-widowed, coupled friends - please read: I hate that this is even a thing, but every so often, it needs to be said. Your husband goes hunting and is gone for a few days...that does not make you ...
My husband so loved music. I have his piano, now lying silent of his touch that brought gentle melodies of hope… scales up and down to help my daughter warm up before he played her music so her song could ...
My youngest son was 16 months old when his father died. Young enough to only speak a few words, and too young to form lasting memories. Yet, the grief experts, and the mothers of grieving kids all know this truth: ...
A very long time ago, in a time that seems like another lifetime altogether, I was married to my first husband. We had been high school sweethearts and married in late Summer of 1995. He had military aspirations and had ...
Four years in to this grief journey which began mid October, 2021. The journey I was shocked to be walking at 36. The journey that try as I may, I will always be stuck on. Grief has got a ...
Photo Credit: Elizabeth WolfeIgnore the Rumor Mill Ignore the Rumor Mill When I sold my Maryland house and moved to Alabama, opinions and judgements landed on my doorstep within days. I expected less “shake my head” mentalities. I expected people ...
How incredibly lucky some are to have found their partner close to home. Or even if there were to be long distance, that they are in the same country as they are. Paco and I met on an anime fanbase ...
It's true that in life, oftentimes people don't really listen just to listen - they listen to reply. A person might be speaking something aloud and instead of absorbing what is being said, the "listener" is in their head, formulating ...
Well. That clearly wasn't him, now was it? He's the one who reminds me day in, day out of said broken heart. At least on days when I think too hard about everything that happened. This time of year, I ...