Hope For Widows Foundation

I’ve been under the weather for a couple of weeks, so I’ve had a lot of time to sit around reading and watching TikToks. I can’t recall now what I was reading, but something jumped out at me, a term I hadn’t heard before: “assumptive wor...

Loss has many faces. I thought it was just my husband’s face—the man I love and miss so dearly. It turns out loss is so much more. It’s the faces of those who left to join him—in my case… my Dad, my Father-in-Law, my best friend, and a steady stre...

Can I be frank with y’all here?  I feel like this month, I’ve felt jealous of too many people in my life, and for good reasons.  I’m not proud of that, but there it is.  The truth.  The green-eyed monster has become very good friends with me, on  more than one occasion in the last few weeks.

I have several widow friends taking some pretty exoti...

Since my husband died suddenly in August 2021, I’ve intentionally avoided many specific things—people, restaurants, songs, TV shows, entire neighborhoods, and even certain highways and streets. It feels as though all of those things died with him.

Every so often, I wonder if I should make myself experience some of them again as part of my h...

A cute little coffee cafe opened in my neighborhood today.  I love local coffee shops. I enjoy seeing the unique personalities the owner brings to each through the décor, t...