Butterfly Tears and Dandelions

About the Book

When I lost my four-year-old granddaughter due to a car accident, my world came to a complete stop. My friends gave me books on grief, but nothing I read helped me, so I decided to write this book. It is raw and tells everything I went through, with no filter. I wanted to bring the process of grieving out into the open and not dance around topics that others don’t want to discuss, such as anger, severe depression, and thoughts of suicide. Grieving is a series of missteps, misinterpretations, and good intentions gone awry. This book is about not only grieving but also healing, which is sometimes just as difficult. Letting go of guilt and other burdens we sometimes carry can be daunting, but if we try really hard, we can find our way through to the light at the end of the tunnel.

About the Author

Colleen Fountain Skinner lives in Central New York surrounded by close and extended family and several furry critters. She’s been married to ‘the boy next door’ for over 30 years, and they are still very much in love. She’s been a dancer, a teacher, chef, and she loves to write. She has written three supernatural thrillers, but this is her first foray into non-fiction. But her biggest accomplishment is being a grandmother to her four grandchildren: Lillyan Faith, Isaac James, Ashton Jay, and Levi James.