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Our 25th Anniversary

by Katherine Billings-Palmer in Coping Mechanisms, Grief, Hope and Healing, Relationships and Dating, Widowhood Journey
July 16, 2022
This past Tuesday was our 25th wedding anniversary and I celebrated alone, sitting under the windchimes in my gazebo. A small portion of Rick’s ashes are in the chimes, so I always feel like he’s with me when I sit ...
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The Happiest Moments Will Also be a Little Sad

by Dori Ann Dupre in Coping Mechanisms, Grief, Hope and Healing, Hope for Widows Foundation, Solo Parenting, Widowhood Journey
July 6, 2022
In a previous season of This is Us, a powerful show about the long-term, winding, intertwined storylines of an American family, Rebecca Pearson, the perennial widowed matriarch is helping deliver her first grandchild on the floor of her son’s home. ...
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The Ordinary Moments

by Katherine Billings-Palmer in Grief, Widowhood Journey
May 14, 2022
I was watching a Brene Brown video and she talked about how everyone wants to have extraordinary experiences, but how the little things in life really matter more. She said that after stunning life events, like near-death experiences, the death ...
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peace instead of pain

Remembrances of Things Past

by Katherine Billings-Palmer in Grief, Hope and Healing, Widowhood Journey
November 14, 2021November 14, 2021
The first year or two after losing Rick, every memory that popped into my mind was an emotional trigger that sometimes made me sob, and other times just brought on some quiet tears. The trick was learning to handle these ...
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Remembered Moments

by Katherine Billings-Palmer in Coping Mechanisms, Grief, Hope and Healing, Relationships and Dating, Widowhood Journey
October 12, 2021October 13, 2021
I went on a date last Saturday night...it was my first date with a new man I met in an online dating app. After two years of first dates, the only thing I know for sure is that you never ...
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Grief, Year Four: Embracing Life for Both of Us

by Katherine Billings-Palmer in Grief, Hope and Healing, Widowhood Journey
August 11, 2021August 12, 2021
This past week, I was up at our cottage in northern Michigan, and I joined the family at nearby Ocqueoc Falls. Rick used to make fun of the falls. When I first took him there, he kept laughing as he ...
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Please Be Patient With Me

by Lisa Kumagai in Coping Mechanisms, Grief, Hope and Healing, Mental Health, Widowhood Journey
July 23, 2021July 23, 2021
As I was making a left turn behind an unusually slow moving car, I gripped my steering wheel agitatedly and blurted out, "Why are you driving so slow?! You're stopping the flow of traffic. UGH!"  And then I saw it. ...
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The “L” Word

by Katherine Billings-Palmer in Grief, Hope and Healing, Relationships and Dating, Widowhood Journey
July 13, 2021
Yesterday, Rick and I would have celebrated our 24th wedding anniversary. It was the third one since he’s been gone. I made it through the fog of the first one. By the second one, I had adapted to life alone, ...
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The Sounds of Silence

by Dori Ann Dupre in Grief, Hope and Healing, Hope for Widows Foundation, Widowhood Journey
July 9, 2021July 10, 2021
“Hello darkness, my old friend…” are the haunting lyrics of the beginning of the Simon and Garfunkel song, “The Sounds of Silence,” that have ebbed and flowed their way through the American musical fabric over the years. I know I ...
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Into The Universe.

by DonnaElliott in Grief, Hope and Healing, Hope for Widows Foundation, Relationships and Dating, Widowhood Journey
July 7, 2021
“When you die and I move to Finland**” is often heard in the house where I live. Always from the friend I live with to her husband of 10 years. It is always said rather matter-of-fact and casual; “babe take ...
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