About

Hey there! Thanks for stopping by! We’re so glad you’e joined us! Good Grief cards was born from a desire to have more honest options for sympathy cards. We didn’t like the typical contrived sentimental cards that are available for sympathy and get well cards, so we used our personal experience and got really really honest. When someone is diagnosed with cancer or loses a loved one, it’s hard to know what to say. But take it from those who have experienced it, this is what we would have wanted to hear.
 
Hi! I’m Kateri and I’m an illustrator and writer from Denver,  Colorado. Handlettering and essay writing are my bread and butter. I love spending time hiking and climbing in the Rockies, love to travel, bake and cook. Several years ago my dad died after undergoing a stem cell transplant for MDS. I got a first hand look at the lack of honest sympathy cards when all I wanted was for someone to tell me that they understood that everything sucked, and that there really was no reason it had happened.  If you’d like to know more about my other projects and freelance work please visit www.katerikramer.com or shoot me an email at [email protected]
 
 
Hey! I’m Janet! I don't have artistic talent, but bad luck and a nice dose of sarcasm. I was diagnosed with stage 3 ovarian cancer in January 2015. I'm doing ok right now, thanks for asking. But, I am also BRCA 1 positive which means I have a ridiculous percent likelihood to also develop breast cancer. I was an old spinster, but found my love in 2016. He had recovered from oral cancer, so we bonded over that and gardening and being silly. We married in June 2017. But by then we learned that cancer was back at him with a vengeance: eight tumors in his bones and lungs. He died in March 2018.  So yeah, my cornucopia of crap has given me the opportunity to hear a lot of trite sentiments, or even worse, complete silence. Don't disappear, even if you don't know what to say.