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Loneliness is one of the hardest aspects of being a widow.  As a suddenly single individual, we feel isolated and saddened at our new status of being solo.  We feel completely and [...]

When you lose the one you love You think your world has ended You think your world will be a waste of life Without them in it You feel there’s no way to go on Life is just a sad, sad song [...]

Today is Februray 11, 2020 which would have been our 52nd Wedding Anniversary.  I dedicate this blog to the 47 wonderful years we had together. After my husband died, I clung to his clothes, [...]

“Grief doesn’t change you. It reveals you.”  –  John Green   I recently devoured an amazing book about grief called FINDING MEANING: The Sixth Stage of Grief, by David [...]

After my husband Peter died almost five years ago, I no longer saw the world in color.  I saw only shades of gray, as if I was in an old-fashioned black-and-white movie.  Color and more [...]

When my husband Peter died over four years ago, I was cloaked in a shroud of grief.  Grief surely defined me in every aspect of my life.  I was “the widow Grad.”  I submissively [...]

It boggles my mind that my husband Peter died over four years ago.  On one hand it seems like it happened just yesterday.  On the other hand, it seems like it was a lifetime ago.  [...]

Laurie Burrows Grad, 75, sits down to a roasted chicken dinner in her Los Angeles home. A cookbook author, she included nine recipes with advice on cooking for one in the book she wrote after her [...]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Yo3v3h2g0Y sung by the fabulous Eartha Kitt  Since I moved into my new condo, I have been roaming around the house quite contentedly.  But the other [...]

“When you can’t look on the bright side, I will sit with you in the dark.” Lewis Carroll Alice in Wonderland After my husband died four years ago, I realized that my ringtone from Spamalot, [...]