The Hungover Widow
Debbie WeissA place to talk about building a life after loss. Personal essays and reflections about grief, aging, sobriety, reinvention, and grown-up relationships. For anyone feeling alienated but maybe a little hopeful.
| Platform |  | Pricing | Only free issues | Publishes | Infrequently |
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| Issues | 15 | Founded | 3 years ago | Last Issue | 2 months ago |
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When Nothing’s a Panacea: Sobriety is Only the Beginning
I recently hit six months sober. This is good. From rain pouring into the living room roof in the early morning hours of December 25, truly ironic for a Jew on Christmas, to sober with a nice new roof of CertainTeed Presidential shingles, b...
I Lost My Mother at Ten. She Left Me With the Ghost of Myself.
Mother’s Day has always felt haunted to me, but I’m haunted by my own ghost. My mom got sick and died four days before my tenth birthday which left me with a ghost. But it’s not the ghost of my mother, it’s who I would have been had she liv...
The Dark Side of Loneliness: When We Need to be Loved
A professional photo from my online dating days. I was actually in pretty bad shape.
I’ve been affected by all the discussion over Lindy West’s new memoir about her polyamorous relationship with her husband and another woman. Not because w...
The Day I Stopped Punishing Myself
By the water in Mendocino, one of my favorite places. The world just feels better.
I woke up this morning to a radical thought: I don’t have to punish myself anymore. It was just how I went through the world.
I’d been doing it for decades...
When My Anxiety Ate the Holidays
Photo by Engin_Akyurt on Pixabay
The other day, I almost threw the new air fryer off the patio deck and onto my partner’s SUV. Such were my holidays and my catalyst to give up my old coping tools.
It all started when I woke up on Christma...
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Widow, author, former lawyer and recovering cynic yet surprisingly hopeful. Essays on grief, loneliness, aging, sobriety, relationships, and the practice of rebuilding a life after loss. Author of “Available As Is” and essay in NY Times' Modern Love.
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