by Heather Straughter | Apr 22, 2024 | Blog, Letters to Jakey
Dear Jakey, As with so many of my letters to you, this has been written in my head many times over. I have been grappling with so many different versions and struggling to find the right words for so long. And sometimes I feel like through the podcast I have been...
by Heather Straughter | Feb 2, 2024 | Blog, Letters to Jakey
Dear Jakey, The last few weeks, or maybe month, I have been inundated with thoughts, conversations, and different ideas about grief. I have talked more about you in the last month, and to more people, than I have in the previous few years. It is not that I didn’t talk...
by Heather Straughter | Jan 16, 2024 | Blog, Letters to Jakey, Uncategorized
Dear Jakey, I found a video today of you on an old digital Canon camera. It was quite an ordeal to get the battery charged so that I could see what was on it and then once I got the camera turned on it took me a while to figure out how to scroll through the pictures...
by Heather Straughter | Dec 30, 2023 | Blog, Letters to Jakey, Podcast
Dear Jakey, After a 7 year hiatus, I returned to writing to you earlier this month. It was done away from this blog and really gave me a chance to think about all the things that these letters meant to me and why I stopped writing. It was like dipping your toe in the...
by Heather Straughter | Oct 13, 2020 | Events, Main Image Banner, Media, News, Uncategorized
Jake’s Help from Heaven now offers an emergency grant for previously approved applicants. EMERGENCY SUPPORT FORM (PDF) EMERGENCY SUPPORT FORM (word)