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Abergavenny Food Festival

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... Read >
Author: Mary

The Abergavenny Food Festival

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... Read >
Author: Mary

Living a Half Life

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... Read >
Author: Elaine Williams

What if?

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... Read >
Author: Elaine Williams

Can You Talk about Grief too Much?

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.... Read >
Author: Elaine Williams

Tomorrow is a Gift

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... Read >
Author: Elaine Williams

Sometimes You Need to Cry

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... Read >
Author: Elaine Williams

Dating After Loss of a Spouse

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... Read >
Author: Elaine Williams

Dreams and Healing After Loss

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... Read >
Author: Elaine Williams

The Best Years of My Life

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... Read >
Author: Elaine Williams

Starting Anew at Fifty

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... Read >
Author: Elaine Williams

Reacting to Loss and Grief

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... Read >
Author: Elaine Williams

Why We Need to Talk About Grief

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... Read >
Author: Elaine Williams

On Becoming a Widow

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... Read >
Author: Elaine Williams

My Shirt Says “I Waits for No Man”

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... Read >
Author: Elaine Williams

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