Grieving Futures

Surviving the Deaths of My Parents

I am slowly posting the entirety of Grieving Futures: Surviving the Deaths of My Parents, here on Patience & Fortitude for free. General warnings are in place: this book address grief, mourning, self-harm, anger, poverty, and pet death, all in the context of becoming an adult orphan in my twenties. You can still buy the book if you would like (doing so helps support my writing!).

photo of a kintsugi bowl with the text: The Empty Bowl. What is the difference between a cathartic retelling of events and a memoir?

Grieving Futures, The Empty Bowl

Grieving Futures continues with “The Empty Bowl”

I am in the midst of working—slowly, so very slowly—on what you might call the next installment of Patience & Fortitude: "The Empty Bowl." Whereas the first installment, "Grieving Futures," was about the trauma I experienced during and after the deaths of my parents, "The Empty Bowl" is going to be a bigger-picture story. It will be the memoir of two very broken people trying to raise a very odd child.

Sep 10, 2024 5 min read