Linda Della-Donna
Linda Della-Donna is founder and director of http://www.griefcase.net. Griefcase is a nonprofit organization. Linda Della Donna supports widows going through the grief process. Della Donna makes her home 50 miles north from where the World Trade Center used to be. Email Linda Della Donna at griefcasenet@gmail.com
Articles:
Dear Widow: When Mistletoe and Holly Make You Feel All Blue
Oh, by gosh, by golly, whaddayaknow, it’s Happy Holiday time, again! And that red-suited man standing on your street corner’s extolling, “Ho! Ho! Ho!” making, you, dear widow, want to […]
Read MoreYou Know You’re a Widow When…
By Linda Della Donna — You know you’re a widow when… At the end of a good day, you bust out crying for no particular reason. At the end of […]
Read MoreFor Widows Only — Three Secret Things To Guide You
You’re home now — From the cemetery — Just closed the door on an endless line of well-wishing-filled-with-advice strangers who didn’t know what to say but talked endlessly anyway, and […]
Read MoreFor Widows Only–6 Ways To Have A Happier New Year
Happy New Year! Yeah, I know. You?re thinking what?s with this writer? Life sucks without Him by your side. How dare she use the H word and wish me a […]
Read MoreFor Widows Only-You Know You’re A Widow When
At the end of a good day you bust out crying for no particular reason. At the end of a bad day you burst out laughing for no particular reason. […]
Read MoreFor the New Widow — What We Worry About
We are alone. And we worry about that. We worry we will die alone. We buried our life partner. And now we worry about who will bury us? Who will […]
Read MoreFor the New Widow: Ten Tips To Help Her Survive…After the Funeral
You?re home now. A short while ago you stood over a hole in the earth. You blew a kiss, tossed a rose, sprinkled a shovelful of dirt over a casket, […]
Read MoreFor Widows Only — Three Secret Things To Guide You
You?re home now — From the cemetery — Just closed the door on an endless line of well-wishing-filled-with-advice strangers who didn?t know what to say but talked endlessly anyway, and […]
Read MoreFor Widows Only — What I’ve Learned
After my husband died, I trashed my writing — Journals — An accumulation of spiral bound notebooks, one for each month of each year for four years. And a YA […]
Read MoreFor the Newly Widowed:Top Ten Tacky Things People Will Say to You and Ten Ways You Can React to Them
The funeral is over. You?ve written ten thousand checks, signed your name ten thousand times to ten thousand thank you notes, and ten thousand times you wished you were dead. […]
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