Katana Rose was three years old when she passed from acute leukemia in November 2022. A couple of months later, News 3 in Las Vegas interviewed me about what our family had been through. I told them, “I have kids, so I have to put on a mask, and I ha continue Reading...

Early Deaths Prompt Financial Planning My father died when he was 33 years of age, leaving my mom to raise four kids by herself. She remarried a few years later. Then my stepdad died when I was 20 years old. These experiences made me realize the impo continue Reading...

Share your story to help both you and others to heal In my book and blogs, I often talk about how telling your story can help you to heal. There is something very therapeutic in the act of sharing your story. As I say, you heal just a little bit ever continue Reading...

50% of Widowers Experience a Serious Illness Within 12 months of Wife’s Death That was my reaction when I found out that I had prostate cancer and would have to start treatment soon. When you get prostate cancer, suddenly everyone you know is dealing continue Reading...

Ghosted by Friends and Family? We widowers often hear that soon after the death of our wives, many friends and even family members may ghost us. This frequently occurs despite our best efforts to maintain these previously reliable and important relat continue Reading...

Recently, in one of our NWO Peer-to-Peer Men’s Discussion Groups something amazing happened. The meeting centered on a most meaningful theme we explore together: Sharing who each widower's spouses were and what made them extraordinary. The seven part continue Reading...

FOR ALL WIDOWERS STRUGGLING WITH ISOLATION AND LONELINESS! As widowers we often are advised to avoid self-isolation. It can be harmful to our physical and mental health. Fear, anger, doubt, and depression can run rampant. Destructive behaviors such a continue Reading...

Widowers, you can’t think your way out of this one! Usually our analytical brains put our IQ (abstract reasoning, memory, and problem-solving) to work to solve whatever new challenge we are facing. But when we lose our wives, these old standbys fail continue Reading...

When you are in a long dark tunnel, and trying to find your way out... do you continue down deeper into the darkness or do you go towards that pinpoint of light in the other direction? Often when we are buried in grief we have trouble figuring out wh continue Reading...

Introduction AI can amaze you and it can scare you. A recent film, The AI Doc: Or How I Became an Apocaloptimist, created by Daniel Roher, is an amazing and deep look at both how AI is transforming the world at a record pace, AND at how it could cont continue Reading...

It is a well-documented phenomenon: a person loses a limb, yet they can still feel it. The brain continues to fire signals to a hand or a leg that is no longer there. They reach for objects with fingers that do not exist or try to stand on a foot tha continue Reading...

Many, if not all of us, will experience what is commonly known as Widower’s Fog. Everything seems mushy and unclear, or you might feel unable to make decisions. You may be unable to concentrate on anything technical or challenging, like paying your b continue Reading...