**North American Book Awards - 2025 Silver Winner** When she died, I expected to find a book-a book she left behind for you to follow and learn what she was really thinking as she wrestled with life, faith, and death toward the end.

But she did not.

So her words will be woven with mine to you. In a way, through me, you will also hear from her.

If you died tomorrow, what would you want your kids to learn from your conversations? Let's Skip the Bull cuts straight to the heart, with characteristic wit and off-kilter humor, Daryl Calfee shares practical advice for his children on life, death, relationships, religion, grief, principles, money, and working as a creative in a corporate setting, interspersed with gut-busting or thought-provoking (and sometimes hilariously gut-churning) stories from growing up on his families' farm in rural West Virginia.

Daryl takes an honest, unflinching approach to the realities of spouse loss, offering hard-won wisdom on how to endure grief with kindness and strength of character. Above all, he insists on the importance of raising kids to be anti-fragile-to understand death as a fact of life and face challenges with courage and conviction, growing stronger in the weathering.