http://www.articlealley.com en-us editorial@articlealley.com This weekend marks the 11th year of the Abergavenny Food Festival. With some high profile visitors, including the French Prime Ministers wife Penelope Fillon originally from Abergavenny, it's certain this year's festivities promises more culinary deligh... http://www.articlealley.com/http://mary.articlealley.com/abergavenny-food-festival-1108832.html 23rd September 2009 The Abergavenny Food Festival has become an important date in Britain's gastronomic calendar. Now in its eleventh year, the festival has firmly established itself on the culinary map, attracting 25,000 visitors from around the world each year seeking fine... http://www.articlealley.com/http://mary.articlealley.com/the-abergavenny-food-festival-1104045.html 22nd September 2009 Elaine Williams copyright 2008 After my husband's death, I enclosed myself in an emotional shell. A hard cased, untouchable cocoon of nothingness. I wanted to be numb, I wanted to be left alone. Many days my self-imposed prison made me want to be loved... http://www.articlealley.com/http://elainewilliams.articlealley.com/living-a-half-life-499404.html 28th March 2008 Elaine Williams ©2008 What if as a new widow or widower you began dating again after not dating for many years? What if you had high hopes of bringing love once again into your life? What if you met a scammer online but thought they were a real person... http://www.articlealley.com/http://elainewilliams.articlealley.com/what-if-473874.html 13th February 2008 Elaine Williams ©2008 When does talking about the loss of someone get to be too much? Is it still grief or is it descending into depression? Talking and writing about grief for me has been a catharsis, a way to heal my thoughts, emotions and fears.... http://www.articlealley.com/http://elainewilliams.articlealley.com/can-you-talk-about-grief-too-much-473869.html 13th February 2008 Elaine Williams ©2008 My husband chose to be cremated, and to that end I had arranged a time for friends and family to gather for a memorial service in remembrance. I gathered pictures of our twenty plus years together, creating a wonderful collage in... http://www.articlealley.com/http://elainewilliams.articlealley.com/tomorrow-is-a-gift-473864.html 13th February 2008 Elaine Williams ©2008 I recall a period in time, at about 18 months after my husband passed away, that I felt pretty good about myself. I had handled what life had thrown me and come out battered, but mostly okay on the other side. After caretaking my... http://www.articlealley.com/http://elainewilliams.articlealley.com/sometimes-you-need-to-cry-473862.html 13th February 2008 Elaine Williams copyright 2008 When a relationship ends due to one partner dying, what is the correct time period to begin dating again? Grief is such a funny, unpredictable animal. Many people in years' past think a year is a suitable time to wait bef... http://www.articlealley.com/http://elainewilliams.articlealley.com/dating-after-loss-of-a-spouse-466946.html 02nd February 2008 Elaine Williams ©2008 There were many nights as a new widow, I fell into an exhausted, restless sleep. In the first two years after my husband's death, I had countless dreams in which he appeared. My dreaming seemed to revolve around day-to-day issues... http://www.articlealley.com/http://elainewilliams.articlealley.com/dreams-and-healing-after-loss-466945.html 02nd February 2008 Elaine Williams ©2008 Recently I was asked to describe the best years of my life. Being a widow of 4 years and mother, there are many different times I considered to be the best years of my life. When I was younger, I remember summers going on seemin... http://www.articlealley.com/http://elainewilliams.articlealley.com/the-best-years-of-my-life-252997.html 19th January 2008 Elaine Williams ©2008 I lost my husband and best friend of 22 years when he was 59 and I was 47. We have three boys and I'd always thought we'd be together forever, however long that was, or at least another twenty years. I felt blindsided when I lost... http://www.articlealley.com/http://elainewilliams.articlealley.com/starting-anew-at-fifty-252996.html 19th January 2008 Elaine Williams © 2008 There are many unique and varied reactions to grief and loss. We may all react differently and yet the end result, many times, is the same. There is a sense of a gaping hole in our chest, a deep emptiness that at first nothi... http://www.articlealley.com/http://elainewilliams.articlealley.com/reacting-to-loss-and-grief-252995.html 19th January 2008 Elaine Williams © 2008 According to the U.S Census Bureau, there are approximately 700,000 new widows every year. To me, this is staggering, and I never thought I'd be a statistic. I've been asked many times if I wrote A Journey Well Taken: Life Af... http://www.articlealley.com/http://elainewilliams.articlealley.com/why-we-need-to-talk-about-grief-252993.html 19th January 2008 Elaine Williams ©2008 I became a widow at forty-seven years of age. I'd always thought my husband and I would be together forever, or at least a lot longer than twenty years. We have three boys, who at the time were eleven, eighteen and nineteen. Wh... http://www.articlealley.com/http://elainewilliams.articlealley.com/on-becoming-a-widow-252990.html 19th January 2008 Elaine Williams ©2008 Wait, does that sound feminist, or sexist? It's not meant to. There's a story behind the shirt. I re-entered the dating world after 27 years absence. I had high hopes. I was a good person, a valuable human being with wants and n... http://www.articlealley.com/http://elainewilliams.articlealley.com/my-shirt-says-i-waits-for-no-man-252987.html 19th January 2008 Elaine Williams ©2008 The last two months of my husband's life I slept next to the bed Hospice had set up in our living room. At night, I lay on the loveseat I'd come to hate and listen intently to his labored breathing. It was what I did when my kids... http://www.articlealley.com/http://elainewilliams.articlealley.com/if-you-knew-the-ending--would-you-change-the-beginning-caregiving-252985.html 19th January 2008 Elaine Williams ©2008 I've become empowered, in total and full control of my life, even when there's something that blindsides you when you least expect it. The thing is, I didn't ask, seek or want this new empowerment. I thought I was doing okay. I w... http://www.articlealley.com/http://elainewilliams.articlealley.com/a-realization-of-being-empowered-252936.html 19th January 2008 Elaine Williams ©2008 One of my biggest challenges has been raising three boys as a single parent. I've been told by other parents that it's easier to deal with boys than girls. Usually this comes from a parent who has all girls. I totally, wholly di... http://www.articlealley.com/http://elainewilliams.articlealley.com/a-single-mother-raising-boys-252935.html 19th January 2008 By Elaine Williams ©2008 When I lost my husband to cancer in 2004, my life as I knew it did a 360 degree turn. Nothing was the same and yet only one thing had changed. I had lost someone near to my heart, a part of my life for twenty plus years, the f... http://www.articlealley.com/http://elainewilliams.articlealley.com/dancing-with-the-demon-of-loneliness-252934.html 19th January 2008 Elaine Williams ©2008 Due to life circumstances, the death of a spouse, I had been out of the dating game for some time and reentered the scene after a 27-year absence. I experienced what I like to call "culture shock". One definition is as follows: ... http://www.articlealley.com/http://elainewilliams.articlealley.com/dating-againon-the-far-side-of-forty-252931.html 19th January 2008 Elaine Williams ©2008 One day, a little over three months after my husband's cancer diagnosis, was the first time I really thought he was going to die. He lay in bed and he could not get up from being so weak. I was so incredibly frightened. I knew wi... http://www.articlealley.com/http://elainewilliams.articlealley.com/does-god-send-balloons-252929.html 19th January 2008