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Cutting Room Floor

Originally published in July 2024 in Blog, Books on Grief, Books on Parental Loss, Toronto Illustrators

This drawing never made it into my book, I Miss My Mommy: 150 Portraits of Orphaned Adults.

What is your grief story?

Originally published in June 2024 in Blog, Books on Grief, Books on Parental Loss, Grief, Pen Jar Productions

I Miss My Mommy takes you right to the heart of the five stages of grief through 150 portraits, some grim, some funny, but all relatable.

Father’s Day

Originally published in June 2024 in Blog, Books on Grief, Books on Parental Loss, Gift Ideas, Pen Jar Productions

My new book is called I Miss My Mommy, but fathers are just as integral to the story for orphaned adults. For Father’s Day, here’s a preview of how dads, now gone, weave in and out of the stories of their adult kids’ lives.

Summer Giveaway

Originally published in June 2024 in Blog, Books on Grief, Books on Parental Loss, Gift Ideas, Grief, Pen Jar Productions

Let’s start a conversation about grief. I’d love a short social media review of my book (up to 150 words written or filmed) from you:

The Queen of Death

Originally published in June 2024 in Blog, Books on Grief, Books on Parental Loss, Graphic Visualizer, Grief

I didn’t set out to create a book on grief … Just before the pandemic, I started drawing fictional portraits of people in different stages of grief and organizing them into a narrative arc.