K. Zinn didn’t think she would lose her mother unexpectedly. She didn’t think she would raise her children without their grandmother, and she certainly didn’t think she would be a children’s book author. But here she is.

This idea started when she had her son Cameron. During maternity leave from her graphic design job, she came to the devastating realization that Cameron would never know her mom, his grandmother.

As she sat in Cameron’s room rocking him to sleep one evening, she gazed at his bookshelf wishing there were a book that would somehow bring her mother back to life.

When a cardinal landed on a branch outside of Cameron’s window, she took this as a sign from her mother, and set out to create
”Symbols I Send.”