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

Father's Day Without Dad: Getting Through a Day Built Around Someone You Miss

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.

Father's Day without dad can blindside you, partly because it gets less buildup than Mother's Day, so a hardware store sign or a grill ad can stop you cold. What helps is deciding ahead of time what the day will hold: one way to remember him, a plan for your own family, and permission to keep it quiet if that's all you've got.