Kelsey Cecil 10/19/26 Kelsey Cecil 10/19/26

The Dead Parents Club Doesn't Take a Holiday: Christmas When Both Your Parents Are Gone

Name: Grieving My Parents by Finishing My Mom's Children's Book
Uploaded: 2026-10-11T15:48:12+00:00
Description: Kelsey Lizee Cecil on losing both parents and publishing Rally Takes the Train, the children's book her mom always wanted to write.

Grief at Christmas after losing your parents doesn't take the year off, and it doesn't stop after the first one. It's heavy, it's strange, and every so often it's darkly funny. Members of the Dead Parents Club tend to get through it with lower expectations, a few odd rituals of their own, and each other.