Yesterday was a special birthday; it would have marked my late brother Mipps turning 56, but it also served as the release of our tribute book, Birdie & Mipps.
![](https://barbaragruenerauthor.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/mippsbirdierelease.png?w=1024)
I’m so grateful that Road To Awesome would choose to publish our passion project.
![](https://barbaragruenerauthor.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/title.jpg?w=1024)
I’m also so thankful that the Reporter News deemed our story front page newsworthy!
![](https://barbaragruenerauthor.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/img_8913.jpg?w=729)
I’ve been told repeatedly that it’s important to make grief our friend, wear it like a shawl even, so that’s what I tried to do once I came out of that initial fog, embrace grief and give my pain purpose.
I hope you’ll like our story, dear reader; do leave your feedback for our other friends here.