Standing Alone: The Ultimate Widow Superpower | Mary Oves | TEDxGrandCanyonUniversity

Widowhood can be a launchpad for strength and reinvention according to widow, writer, and Stockton University professor, Mary Oves. The idea of singleness and being alone can be a powerful stage for anyone, widow or not. Mary Oves is a professor of
English at Stockton University
in New Jersey and a freelance
writer who has written for
The New York Times and The
Philadelphia Inquirer. She
speaks nationally for the
Soaring Spirits Organization
and is the 2022 Grand
Prize Winner of the Erma Bombeck Humorist-
in-Residence contest.

Mary Oves entertains her
readers five days a week on
her website, The Chrysalis
Collective, and is working on
a book of humor essays to be
published in 2023. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx