A gentle read-along for a child who misses a grandparent who is changing, even while they’re still right here.

A guide for the ordinary teenage things you miss when family needs you, and the quiet grief that comes with it.

For when a grandparent you love isn’t quite the same anymore, and you find yourself missing them while they’re still right here.

For the grief that can show up before a loss, when a grandparent you love is still here but no longer quite the same.

For loving an aging grandparent from three states away, and for the worry, and the grief that can arrive long before any goodbye.

For the first big gathering with an empty chair, when everyone is trying to act normal and the person who is missing is the loudest thing in the room.

For the empty chair no one looks at, the tradition that hurts now, and getting through a day that used to be theirs too.

For coming back to a house with a missing person in it, and for carrying someone you love through a gathering built around the space they used to fill.

For the season when friends, roles, and capacities begin to go one after another, and for holding all that loss without being asked to fold it into tidy stages.

For holding a good, long life and its real losses at the very same time, without asking one of them to make room for the other.

For the holes left in the web you depended on, and for who you reach for when the first names are no longer there.

For the repair you cannot deliver because the person is gone or beyond reach, and for what you do with the wanting to make it right.

A few plain moves for the moment a loss you thought you had settled rises up again, without warning, in the middle of an ordinary day.

For the season when one of you has gone quiet with grief and the other is reaching for closeness, and the two of you are tenderly out of step.

Coming back to school when everyone knows and nobody knows what to say. For middle schoolers: going back to school while grieving.

A friend died young, and everyone in your group is grieving it differently. This is for staying close to each other through it.

Your friend is sad because someone died, and you do not have to fix it. For kids: how to stay a good friend when someone has died.

Your friend came back to school different, and nobody handed you a script. For middle schoolers: how to show up for a grieving friend.

The group chat went quiet around it and you want to say something real. For teens: what actually helps a grieving friend, and what to skip.

Your roommate lost a parent mid-semester and you are the person nearby. For college: being the bridge for a grieving friend, not the fix.

Support for a widowed friend is needed long after the casseroles stop. Show up for a friend who lost their person, across months.

Everyone in the house is grieving in a different room. For teens: when your family grieves in completely different ways.

You are grieving on campus while your family grieves at home. Grieving from a distance while your family grieves at home.

You are at the head of a table with a chair that is empty. The first season after a loss, from the head of the table.

For many children, the pet is the first death they meet. For kids: when a pet dies and the sadness is very big.

Grieving a pet at an age when you are not sure you are allowed to. For middle schoolers: when a pet dies and it counts.

The assignments did not pause and the friends got strange. For teens: grief at school, and asking for what you need.

The friendships, the family, and the couple-shaped spaces in a week. The first year of widowhood, and the relationships inside it.

The aftermath season is long after the crisis protocols end. For educators: holding a classroom in the season after a loss.

They hurt you, and you are grieving them, and both are true. Grieving someone the relationship with was complicated.

Someone is gone, and there are gentle words for that. A read-aloud first book about missing someone who is gone.

The first holidays and anniversaries arrive whether anyone is ready. Get through the first holidays and anniversaries after a loss.

You are carrying the same loss and finding each other in different places. When a couple carries the same loss in different ways.

Some grieve in feeling and some grieve in doing, and both read as wrong. When your family grieves differently and it turns into conflict.

Their pulling away is a pattern, not a verdict on your friendship. When someone you love is grieving and pulling away from you.

Presence beats repair, and most people reach for repair. What actually helps a grieving friend, and what to skip.