While many of the issues of grief are the same regardless of when or how the death occurred, it also helped me immensely to find people whose paths and timelines were more similar to mine. And since Widow Brain can run so rampant in the first years of grief, I'm helping you out a bit by grouping the blogs by year and general life circumstances (kids, no kids, widowers, etc.).
If you have a grief blog you'd like to add to the list or see any errors, please email me and let me know!
Note on 5/31/11: Supa Dupa Fresh (a.k.a., Robin Moore, who blogs at Fresh Widow) has an AMAZING, long, detailed list of blogs written by widows and widowers. I stopped seeking out new blogs a good year or two ago; hence, my listing here is pretty sparse for newer widows. But check out Supa's blogroll. She's got a TON listed for 2009 and 2010…and I bet she'll have a number for 2011 before too long. She lists far more blogs than I do.
Check it out here:
http://freshwidow.blogspot.com/p/blogroll.html
Group Widow/Widower Blogs
- Widow's Voice (blog for the Soaring Spirits Loss Foundation)
- Part of the Miracle (widower)
Widowed in 2009
- Rollin' with the Rooneys (now blogging at two journeys : one life)
- Suddenly a Widow
- Letters to Elias
- Moving Forward
- Widowed at 29
- The Melanoma Widow
- Us Without You
- No Star in the Sky
- Dan in Real Time (widower)
- Boo's journey through widowhood
- the art of grief/womanNshadows
- Widow's Walk
- The Bartak's Blog
- 29 Years Old - I Shouldn't Be a Widower (widower)
- Slow Down * Enjoy Life (widower)
- Not Your Average Widow
- Not Even a Wren
- Stop Thief: Don't Steal My Grief
- Mothering Nature
- And you may ask yourself-well...how did I get here?
- Andrea Remembers
- matt, liz and madeline (widower)
- Dreams of a Wildflower
- Life...as it's happened to me (widower)
- Chillin' with Lemonade
- What Now?
- Fellows Family Flier
- Life After Death
- Crazy Widow
- I Lost You: My life after sudden death / Queendisko
- Snickollet
- Cracks in Concrete (formerly Making Tracks)
- One breath at a time... (txmomx6)
- Split-Second Single Father (widower)
- Laura's Zoo Up North
- A Love Interrupted
- Monday Changed Everything (Geepatty)
- Dear Dazzy
- A Widow for One Year
- Loving, Living, and Learning
- Widow Chick
- After the fire, the fire still burns
- Fresh Widow
- Widow Wise
- Tome of the Unknown Blogger (widower)
- Poor Widow Me
- The Heartbreak Diary
Widowed before 2005
- Forever Changed (Pentha's List)
- The Alchemy of Loss
- The Fabric of My Life
- Drop Dead Life
- Running Forward (widower)
- Mars Girl on Two Wheels
- Surviving Middle-Aged Widowhood
- My Sainted Dead Husband
- The Hole in the Ceiling
- Widows Breathe Coaching
- WidowSpeak
- Coaching for Widows
- Heartache to Healing
- Lost and Found
- Loss, Grief and Renewal
- Young Widows and Widowers
- Snickollet
- Andrea Remembers
- Mothering Nature
- Cracks in Concrete (formerly Making Tracks)
- Fresh Widow
- Forever Changed (Pentha's List)
- The Alchemy of Loss
- Widow Wise
- Rollin' with the Rooneys
- Letters to Elias
- Jennifer's Writings
- A Widow for One Year
- Dreams of a Wildflower
- Drop Dead Life
- Fellows Family Flier
- Laura's Zoo Up North
- Monday Changed Everything (Geepatty)
- Moving Forward
- Upside Down Class
- I Lost You: My life after sudden death / Queendisko
- Us Without You
- Widow Chick
- Widow's Walk
- The Bartak's Blog
- My Sainted Dead Husband
- MaeheGirl
- Not Your Average Widow
- matt, liz and madeline
- Single Parent Dad
- Split-Second Single Father
- Life...as it's happened to me
- Slow Down * Enjoy Life
- Part of the Miracle
- Life After Death
- One breath at a time... (txmomx6)
- The Alchemy of Loss
- I Promise Not to Laugh During the Seance
- Suddenly a Widow
- Surviving Middle-Aged Widowhood
- MaeheGirl
- Dan in Real Time (now blogging at Able-Minded Dan)
Gay Widows and Widowers
- Dan in Real Time (now blogging at Able-Minded Dan)