Flowers Bloom Anyway: Grief, Grace, and Growth

Coming March 3, 2026 | Pre-Orders Open December 2025

I never set out to write this book.

In the months after my husband died, I was drowning in grief and anger. Writing became my way of processing it all, and at first, I thought I was writing a memoir about those early days. It would be raw, unfiltered, and titled Shit Not to Say When Someone’s Husband Dies. But when I revisited it a year later, I realized I couldn’t publish that book. I was so angry then, and while I don’t regret feeling that way, I also knew that wasn’t the story I wanted to tell.

So I tried again, this time as a self-help book. I thought maybe I could guide others through grief, offer advice on how to survive it. But that didn’t feel right either. Grief isn’t something you solve, and I didn’t want to pretend I had all the answers.

Now, after all the rewrites and all the reflection, Flowers Bloom Anyway has become what it was always meant to be: my story. A narrative of how I rebuilt my life, not despite my grief but because of it. It’s about the choices I made in the aftermath, the ways I’ve learned to live with loss, and how I continue to choose an intentional life every single day. 

This book isn’t just for widows. It’s for anyone who has ever experienced a “before” and an “after.” Anyone who has had to keep going when they weren’t sure how. It’s not a guide, and it’s not a step-by-step process. It’s just proof that no matter what happens, we can keep growing. Because even in the hardest seasons, flowers bloom anyway.

Woven into this story is the very foundation of my flower farm, Sunny Mary Meadow. What started as a few rows of blooms became the backdrop for my healing. It became a place where I turned loss into purpose, and a business rooted in beauty, grief, and growth. During that time, I also learned that grief doesn’t always look the way people think it should. Sometimes the way people heal can make people feel uncomfortable.

Flowers Bloom Anyway launches on March 3, 2026, with pre-orders opening in December 2025. I hope you’ll join me in this journey and find a little bit of yourself in these pages.

Regional Emmy winning story by Journalist Boyd Huppert

See a little snippet of my healing journey from 2022 in the early days of Sunny Mary Meadow.

It’s evolved a lot since then, but this video captures where it all began.

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