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Grief is inevitable if you’re lucky. And I was the luckiest of them all.
The Luck We Carry is a collection of personal essays about love, loss, and what comes after the life you thought you were living disappears. I didn’t just decide to write a book about grief; I also did it to keep a promise.
Before he died, my husband, Ken, made me promise I would never stop writing. Writing was how I made sense of the world long before I met him, and it became how I survived after I lost him. This book is the result of that promise, kept one essay at a time.
These essays were written across many years and many seasons of grief. They move through love, caregiving, loss, and the quiet, often confusing work of rebuilding a life. They are honest without being precious. Reflective without pretending I have it all figured out. Sometimes tender. Sometimes funny. Often both.
At the end of each essay, I’ve included an author’s note. I added these notes intentionally. They offer context about when the piece was written and where I was emotionally at the time. My hope is that they help readers locate themselves in their own experience. To recognize that where you are right now is valid, even if it looks different from where I was when I wrote a particular essay.
This is not a guidebook for grief. It does not offer tidy answers or timelines. What it offers instead is companionship. A sense that you are not doing this wrong. Proof that someone else has walked through it, stumbled through it, and kept going.
This book is for you if:
- You’ve lost someone you love and feel unsure how to carry that loss forward
- You’re grieving, or loving someone who is, and want language for what feels hard to name
- You don’t want advice, but you do want to feel less alone
- You believe grief and joy can exist in the same life, sometimes in the same moment
- You appreciate honest storytelling that makes room for humor, tenderness, and truth
The Luck We Carry is for anyone who has loved deeply, lost painfully, or had their life rearranged by circumstances they did not choose.
At its heart, this book is about carrying love forward. About learning that grief does not disappear, but it does change. And about discovering that even after profound loss, life can still hold meaning, connection, and unexpected moments of grace.
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