Hi, Honey!

For decades, 4 p.m. meant one thing: a phone call to Mom. A steady rhythm. A daily touchpoint. A voice on the other end of the line. And then one day, it was gone. When dementia took those daily conversations, Jyl Barlow began writing instead, filling letters with everything that could no longer be said out loud. What started as a way to hold on became something else entirely: a record of love, loss, and the slow, disorienting unraveling of goodbye.
Hi, Honey! was written over nine months before her mother's death and for a full year after. It captures grief as it happens: unfiltered, unresolved, and deeply human. For anyone who has loved someone through illness, through change, or through loss, this book is a reminder that even when the conversation ends, the relationship doesn't.