My world shattered when I became a widow. I am now attempting to reassemble the broken shards into something damaged, fractured, and scarred, yet beautiful.
Some people wonder how I continue to function after losing the love of my life. Some marvel at how “strong” I am. Still others think me to be callous or uncaring in “moving on” so “quickly”. [Note: I consider myself to be moving forward, not moving on; the first denotes positive motion while the […]
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This Mother’s Day seemed hard, as were the days leading up to it. Harder than last year, when I think I was still very deep in the numbness following A’s death. In the initial hours, days and weeks of losing a loved one, there is a sort of blanket of despair that, while heavy and […]
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Since becoming widowed, I have been told, in essence, that the second year of grief is more difficult than the first. I have heard it said so many times that I felt there must be some truth to it. I’m only a few weeks into my “Year Two” and probably unqualified to really weigh in […]
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Have you ever heard of National Widows Day? Yeah, me, neither. But this year it’s on Wednesday, May 3rd, for the record. It’s a fairly new event that evolved from a concept known as Widow’s Wednesday. This was started as essentially a way for people to remember the widows (and widowers) in their lives by […]
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Many Faces of Cheri G 