'Grief and Grit(s)' by Marsha Gray Hill touched me on so many levels. I'm not sure that any American can say they haven't been changed by Covid and Ms. Hill bears testament to much of the pain and subsequent scars. I am a Health Care Professional who cared for less seriously ill Covid patients yet I was haunted by the media images of what was happening as well as by my own imagination. I cannot fathom the pain that Ms. Hill experienced watching her mother suffer, being torn as to the right choices to make and facing the reality that her mother, Adaline Gray, would never be a priority for care due to her comorbidities and age. I am a planner like Ms. Hill, though not to the degree she was, but I understand that she is unable to get past her image of what her mother's passing and remembrance ceremony would look like. I am also a nurturer at heart so I understand Adaline Gray's selflessness and can only imagine her demented confusion and fear in her hour of need. However, the biggest message I will remember from this book is not to wait until I'm 'wishing for more time' to commit to print the random stories that are the patchwork of who I am. Marsha Hill also reaffirmed my belief that blood and spirit family are one of life's few constants and definitely worthy of the very best my nurturing soul has to give. Thanks to Marsha Hill, BookishFirst and Simon & Schuster for getting a digital ARC in my hands. I give the book four stars and I recommend it to anyone who has experienced the last four years and mourned the loss of any amount of interpersonal interaction due to Covid restrictions. The anger, the fear, the angst of covid is well depicted in this book as is the heartbreak of the overlooked helpless senior, the fickleness of grief and the grit of the Gray family.