“The children storming the [EDIT] office each day at 3pm have all devoured it more than a dozen times since we purchased a copy for everyone on the team last week. Essential reading for kids and parents everywhere.”

To us, wild places are a playground. Many of us build our lives around ensuring our spot in a wild place, yearning to raise children with rosy cheeks and tough summer feet. In the wild we breathe deep and feel more alive.

“Randomness is not the domain of pessimists. It’s empty soil, a blank slate. The profound rarity that you ever came to be at all! That you are you as opposed to any other billion permutations of this microscopic lottery, that I am me. Despite it all, here you are, as you are.”

I’m at the ever-excellent Modern Loss community with my why-and-how of Animal Husbandry for Dragons: How will I stop either spitting or swallowing fire every time someone asks how I’m doing? Heat, loves. Heat is where fortitude grows.

I’m over at Modern Loss with a fresh take on resolutions: “Bracing yourself for a new year without someone important? Kate Inglis offers four ways to grieve differently in 2019 (hint: before it ebbs, it has to rage). This is one to share the hell out of...”

Hey! I’m on CTV Morning Live Atlantic talking about how to navigate grief with an open heart. It’s the day before my first life-after-death salon, tomorrow night in Halifax—a spirited evening I hope will happen more than once.

The Coast covered the run-up to my salon in Halifax this Monday night, and it’s wonderful. Steph knows grief, and as a fellow novelist, she asked: is it taxing to retread raw ground when I talk about the book? Yes. But everyone else has some, too.

Evan and Ben will never fully recover from their backstage pass to the CBC Charlottetown for our interview with Mainstreet. Stars and rainbows! They got hooked up with big headphones to do the daily plug. And again. And again. #giggles

“The book became itself, and the people in it became real to me. I didn't know if it would end up getting published, but I felt like I owed the characters a chance to exist by finishing it. Otherwise, they just stagger off like untethered spirits…”