Elaine Williams
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- Grief, loss, widow
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- Writer, Business owner, independent publisher
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- RWA, Intl. Women's Writing Guild, Women on Writing
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Starting Anew At Fifty
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 him to cancer after 11 months of illness. I had a terrible time ...
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Why We Need To Talk About Grief
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 Jou ey Well Taken: Life After Loss while my husband was ill. As a caretaker, and even though I ...
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On Becoming A Widow
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 the twenty years we had. In that time frame we had three boys, who at the time of his passing were eleven, eighteen and nineteen years of age. When the ...
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Terminal Diagnosis, The Shadow Of Loss
I remember vividly the day my husband was diagnosed with cancer. We sat in the doctor's office, not saying anything after the doctor confirmed the lesions on Joseph's esophagus were malignant. Even though we had asked for the truth, it was still an incredible shock. I had never actually thought ...
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A Single Mother Raising Boys
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 disagree. Where did anyone ever get that idea? Boys have their own ...
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My Shirt Says “I Waits For No Man”
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 needs. I’d been married 20 years, considered myself a well grounded ...
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On Becoming A Widow
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. When the reality of my situation sank in, I ran the gamut of ...
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Dating After Loss Of A Spouse
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 before incorporating life changes, and yet for many of us, a year into our ...
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The Best Years Of My Life
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 seemingly forever. What wonderful times, playing tag or touch football ...
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If You Knew The Ending, Would You Change The Beginning?
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 were babies—listen intently for the next breath to make sure ...
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Dreams And Healing
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 with my kids, money, fear of failure, and later, reentering the ...
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Does God Send Balloons?
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 with certainty there was a good chance he was going to die that ...
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A Journey Well Taken: Life After Loss
A Journey Well Taken: Life After Loss by Elaine Williams, a story about a widow's loss, grief and renewal. Available, June 2008
January 2, 2008
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A Journey Well Taken Life After Loss
A Journey Well Taken: Life After Loss by Elaine Williams book about a widow's journey through loss, grief and renewal.
December 31, 2007
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www.ajou eywelltaken.com
A widow's jou ey through loss, grief and renewal
Contacting Elaine Williams
elainewilliams@onwingspress.com
Phone 518-628-4415
Fax 917-677-4802
OnWings Press
P.O. Box 100
East Jewett, NY 12424
How to get started
I am always on the look-out for new marketing ideas, other ways to get the word out to those who are on their grief jou
ey. I love to share my empowerment ideas with others, showing them what helped me move forward from a dark place in my life. I welcome new ideas and partnerships. Please feel free to contact me. I have a multitude of grief, loss and empowerment articles on my website. Thanks for visiting! Elaine
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I have review copies available of A Jou
ey Well Taken: Life After Loss and would be happy to forward the same, with appropriate press release, for review. Please contact me at onwingspress@yahoo.com