From the author of A Widow’s Words, comes the second book in the series of poetry and essays about grief. A Widow’s Words: Year Two explores coping with life as a widow following the first anniversary of a spouse’s death and how grief continues to impact the ability to move on and survive life alone.

A Widow’s Words, Year Two: Grief, Reflection, Prose, Poetry, and Hope is a selection of poems and essays that explore navigating life’s journey after the death of a spouse. The tasks have been completed, paperwork filed, and a new journey has begun. But the impact of grief is still powerful and affects most aspects of life.

Coping with grief triggers, re-socializing as a single person, handling stressors and emergencies alone, deciding when to remove the wedding ring, surviving holidays and birthdays, and the strenuous effort of attempting to adapt to life without a partner are all familiar issues to anyone who has lost a spouse. The author examines these issues and how it feels to continue to grieve in a world that expects one to already have “moved on,” but how glimmers of hope may also begin to shine through the pain.