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Employee Assistance Programs and My Book

Employee Assistance Programs and My Book
If any of you work with, or are in touch with, EAP service providers (LifeWorks, BetterUp, ComPsych, MantraCare), I would love an introduction and/or a good word. Thank you, everyone!

Gan Arts Fest

Gan Arts Fest
Ā  Ā  Massive book sales? No. Deep connections? Yes. More on that in a future post. This past weekend, I took the train up to Gananoque, Ontario an...

Finding Your Mother's Spice Tins

Finding Your Mother's Spice Tins
In 2021, Benjamin Dreyer, the former managing editor and copy chief at Random House, wrote a beautiful piece for his Substack newsletter. ā€œThe Fi...

My Book is Going to the Library

My Book is Going to the Library
My graphic novel, I Miss My Mommy: 150 Portraits of Orphaned Adults, will be available at the Toronto Public Library. šŸ‘Jazz handsšŸ‘- Thank you to ...

I Miss You Too, Daddy

I Miss My Mommy: 150 Portraits of Orphaned Adults by Alison Garwood-Jones
My new book is calledĀ I Miss My Mommy, but fathers are just as integral to the story for orphaned adults.For Fatherā€™s Day, hereā€™s a preview of how ...

Grief and Male Friendships

Grief and Male Friendships
Iā€™m at the start of a book tour for my graphic novel, I Miss my Mommy, and Iā€™ve been glad to see as many men as women reaching out to me to share w...

"I Miss My Mommy" - What Readers Are Saying

Cover of I Miss My Mommy by Alison Garwood-Jones
This is my time to say thank you to the folks who read the advance reader copy of I MISS MY MOMMY, my new picture book for big people without pare...

A visit from the TV Crew of "The Agenda"

A visit from the TV Crew of "The Agenda"
Ā  Last week, a team from the current affairs program, The Agenda with Steve Paikin joined me in my studio for a heart to heart discussion on the...

I Miss My Mommy: a picture book to help orphaned adults through grief

I Miss My Mommy: a picture book to help orphaned adults through grief
All of us will have to do life without our parents at some point. I decided to write and illustrate a book to shows what grief looks like. I Miss My Mommy is the world's first picture book for big people without parents.