It was my birthday yesterday and I have to say I found it VERY hard. It was one of those days when the world seemed to be against me. However, that is the bad news! I allowed myself a little wallowing and today I said to myself
“Look, life is life. Every one of us faces problems, every one of us feels lonely. It is not what you feel, it is how you react. You can either sit back and let life’s problems define you as a person or you can stand up and say ” No, life is what you …read more

It is my Auntie’s birthday today. She lost her husband to Parkinson’s disease a few years ago and I have to say that I am so proud of how she has coped. She was devastated, in fact inconsolable for weeks or months, yet now she has found a new life.
She visits my uncles grave regularly, she has never forgotten the love that she shared. However, she came to realise that no amount of prayers, or no amount of wishing….could bring him back. She now belongs to community groups, she goes to exercise classes and yoga…all at the age of 77!
She, …read more

Just 2 days to go to the deadline for you to email me your memories, your poems, your tributes…whatever you like to honor your lost relatives memory. It will would have been my Dad’s birthday next Tuesday which has prompted me to put together our best memories.
So email your stories to anna@b5media.com I am looking forward to reading them all
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Today is my birthday and in many ways it feels lonely and yet in others it has been wonderful.
Yes, I am another year older..yes, I would love to be surrounded by those people I have loved and lost..yes, I  sense the loneliness.
Yet today it is strange because of social networks like Twitter, Facebook and here at Widows Quest I have had so many messages. It just shows that there are friends out there that   care, people who mind whether you feel part of this world or lonely.
We often think we are alone, when if we look round there are …read more