To tell my story and why I am a Connector with the Macks Jewish Connection Network, I’ll start in the summer of 2019, a few years before I started with the organization. I was 30 years old, a new mother to a 9-month-old daughter and just said goodbye to my husband who died from cancer. Adam and I were each other’s best support system and had a million plans for the future, including more kids and an expanded circle of family and friends to share our lives with. My eye toward the future and my family life all came to a crashing halt. And despite the best, most supportive friends and family in the world, I felt so cheated and so deeply alone.  I spent much of the subsequent three years working through grief and my new dual identities of young mother and widow. In 2022, I decided that I wanted to create a community for Jewish widows in the Baltimore area who are also “way too young for this”–widows who are young, with or without kids who are infants through high school aged.CLICK FOR FULL ARTICLE