2024-05-06
Lisa Schamess


Author and mother Lisa Schamess wrote a column entitled, "A Widow's Walk: A Year's Journey Through Grief," which chronicles her experience of mourning and loss after her husband Gil's death:

Full Circle: A Year of Love, Death, and Life

The extraordinary Gil and Lisa Schamess story in its entirety.

By Lisa Schamess

02/02/2001

Relief and Regret

At Yom Kippur, what does the holiday ritual of annulling vows mean to a widow?

By Lisa Schamess

10/06/2000

The Womanly Art of Self-expression

Sometimes doing what needs to be done is enough.

By Lisa Schamess

09/28/2000

Memorial Days

Finding solace from grief in life's small, perfect moments

06/29/00

By Lisa Schamess

Homesick

When the person who is your heart's home dies, where does your heart go?

5/30/00

By Lisa Schamess

Light & Shadow

Reflections on combining young motherhood and young widowhood.

04/25/00

By Lisa Schamess

The Valley of the Shadow

A new widow reflects on the final weeks of her husband's illness and the first weeks of her new life alone.

03/28/00

By Lisa Schamess

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