You don’t just lose someone once. You lose them when you close your eyes each night. And as you open them each morning. You lose them throug...

Fourteen years ago I was anxiously counting down the last two weeks of my husband’s deployment to Afghanistan. Seven weeks earlier, we’d bee...

Today is the 104th anniversary of the Battle of Vimy Ridge.    Some 620,000 Canadians answered the call to serve during the First World War....

April 5th is Gold Star Spouses’ Day in the United States in recognition of the sacrifices made by the surviving (Gold Star) spouses of falle...

As women, we are often marginalized, but as widowed women, we are even more so. We are the invisible ones, the others. Thrust into a role we...

  Today is my 50th birthday. And believe it or not, I am alright with that. Honestly. I am so alright with that. I consider myself very luck...