Widow's Voice: Seven Widowed Voices Sharing Love, Loss, and Hope

We write about widowhood as we live it. Together we examine the good, the bad, and the ugly parts of life as a widowed person. The views expressed here are those held by each individual author. We take no credit for their brillance; we just provide them with a forum for expressing their widowed journey in words that are uniquely their own.

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Showing posts with label Australia. Show all posts

Showing posts with label Australia. Show all posts

Saturday, February 14, 2015

My Forever Valentine

The cover of the last Valentine's day card I gave my husband I've been back home, in Brisbane, Australia, for a couple of da...

Saturday, December 20, 2014

My love for Sydney

A happy Sydney moment - our engagement party in 2012. Today, I'm writing to you from Sydney, Australia, where I'm in town visit...

Thursday, December 19, 2013

Surviving Christmas

I am finding it hard to find any Christmas spirit this year. I have no idea if I have bought the children presents that they will...

Tuesday, December 17, 2013

How I got ... here

My crazy, active son (link is to the pro photographer who took it - this was an 'outtake' shot) To catch up, it's abo...

Tuesday, October 16, 2012

Can I play my immunity card now please?

I don't quite know why I haven't worked this out yet, but being a widow does not mean I am protected from Life parking its enorm...

Tuesday, September 25, 2012

Misconceptions from the ill-informed

I wrote the following on my facebook page after I attended my high school reunion last Saturday night, where it quickly became appar...

Tuesday, September 18, 2012

More like him

I am, at heart, a homebody. An introvert who is too fond of her own company. Greg was gregarious (in joke) and loved to explore differ...

Tuesday, August 7, 2012

Grounding

I'd never describe myself as an "outdoorsy" person. That's not to say that I'm a princess. I am happy to get dir...

Tuesday, July 31, 2012

Processing

The dark mark on the fence marks The Spot. For a while now, I have been able to get through every day with only missing Greg and not g...

Tuesday, June 12, 2012

The Luckiest

I have music on a loop that I listen to in the car. There is one song that never fails to reduce me to tears: Ben Folds, The Luckiest....

Tuesday, May 29, 2012

I've seen better days

Things aren't awful. We have everything we need. Despite weeks of illness of one kind or another, we are basically healthy. ...

Tuesday, May 15, 2012

The small things

When Michele asked me to write here, there is only one thing I clearly remember her saying in the brief - write as honestly as I can fro...

Tuesday, April 10, 2012

It's gonna be alright

It is school holidays here and to get ourselves out of the house, we've been frequenting the local mangrove wetlands to sit and w...

Tuesday, March 27, 2012

SPEAK!

I am sad today. I just heard news of another new widow ... this one, with a little more sting than most. You see, her son died a month a...

Tuesday, March 13, 2012

The funeral revisited

Image via Wikipedia She sat at the front of the church with her mother. Swathed by relatives. Confused between the false smiles ...

Tuesday, March 6, 2012

A very bad day

Last week marked two years since I was widowed. It was not a good week.....worse than I could have imagined. .... I arrived at school on ...

Tuesday, January 17, 2012

Lost

Photo from here There are days when I am still astounded that he hasn't come home. 6:30 pm rolls around and I find myself listening ...

Tuesday, January 10, 2012

Uncontrolled Release

I wrote this post almost a year ago after some of the scariest days I have faced as a widow. Neighbouring towns were ripped apart by what ...

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