Gift Ideas

Graphic Lit Must Push Boundaries

by Alison Garwood-Jones
Graphic Lit Must Push Boundaries
Is courage your first instinct or your last? I don't think it matters so long as you show it. Writing a book is an act of courage. So is reading o...
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For Mother's Day

by Alison Garwood-Jones
For Mother's Day
When I was fresh out of grad school, I moved to Toronto and got a job in a restaurant. It was the first of many times in my life when I was faced w...
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Saskatchewan Libraries

by Alison Garwood-Jones
Saskatchewan Libraries
Do you have a rapacious view of success? This story will slow you down. I MISS MY MOMMY is now available in libraries across the province of Saska...
Posted in Books for Orphaned Adults, Books on Grief, Elisabeth Kubler Ross, Five Stages of Grief, Graphic novel on grief, Graphic Novel on Grief for Orphaned Adults, Grief And Loss, Grief Resources, Grief Support, Managing Grief, Orphaned Adults

Best Books of 2024

by Alison Garwood-Jones
Best Books of 2024
When it comes to grief, no one can do it for us but we do not have to do it alone. That includes you. I Miss My Mommy earned a star and a spot on ...
Posted in Books, Books on Grief, Books on Losing Your Parents, Elisabeth Kubler Ross, Family and Relationships, Father's Day Gift Ideas, Fatherless, Five Stages of Grief, Gift Ideas, Graphic novel on grief, Graphic Novel on Grief for Orphaned Adults, Grief And Loss, Grief Journey, Grief Quotes, Grief Resources, Grief Support, Holiday Gift Ideas, How to get through Mother's Day without a mother, Illustrated books on grief, Living without parents, Losing your parents, Managing Grief, Mother's Day Gift for Motherless Adults, Mother's Day Gift Ideas, National Grief and Bereavement Day, Orphaned Adults, Parental Death, Surviving Loss, Toronto Illustrators

A Visit to the Grief Dreams Podcast

by Alison Garwood-Jones
A Visit to the Grief Dreams Podcast
Listen here When my Mommy comes to me in a dream, I always wake up restored and with a belly full of hot tea. It’s as if my buffer against an occ...
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Employee Assistance Programs and My Book

by Alison Garwood-Jones
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!
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Gan Arts Fest

by Alison Garwood-Jones
Gan Arts Fest
    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...
Posted in Books for Orphaned Adults, Books for Orphaned Adults on Mother's Day, Books on Grief, Books on Losing Your Parents, Elisabeth Kubler Ross, Family and Relationships, Father's Day Gift Ideas, Father's Day Gifts, Fatherless adults, Graphic novel on grief, Graphic Novel on Grief for Orphaned Adults, Graphic Novels on Grief, Grief, Grief And Loss, Grief Journey, Grief Quotes, Grief Resources, Grief Support, Managing Grief, Mothers Day, Orphaned Adults, Orphaned In Adulthood, Parental Death, Parental loss, The Five Stages of Grief, Toronto Illustrators

Kirkus Pins a Star on My Book

by Alison Garwood-Jones
Kirkus Pins a Star on My Book
  Getting the word out about an independently published book takes persistence & the forward lean of a battering ram. It also takes a set of c...
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Finding Your Mother's Spice Tins

by Alison Garwood-Jones
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. “The Fi...
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I Miss You Too, Daddy

by Alison Garwood-Jones
I Miss My Mommy: 150 Portraits of Orphaned Adults by Alison Garwood-Jones
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 ...
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"I Miss My Mommy" was on TV!

by Alison Garwood-Jones
"I Miss My Mommy" was on TV!
When Carla Lucchetta and the crew from The Agenda with Steve Paikin left my home, after an afternoon talking about grief and deceased parents, I f...
Posted in Books on Grief, family, Family and Relationships, Graphic novel on grief, Grief, Grief Resources, Grief Support, Managing Grief, Motherless adults, MothersDay, Orphaned Adults, Parental loss, ParentalDeath, The Five Stages of Grief

Grief and Male Friendships

by Alison Garwood-Jones
Grief and Male Friendships
I’m at the start of a book tour for my graphic novel, I Miss my Mommy, and I’ve been glad to see as many men as women reaching out to me to share w...
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