Lake Placid

Dear Jakey, I write to you tonight mostly because I just want to remind you how much I love you and how much I miss you. We are getting awfully close to a year without you. Tonight while I sat in the playroom with Jake Muffin, I looked at some photos on the wall. One...

Gratitude

Dear Jakey, Happy Thanksgiving a day late. It was our first without you, although that is not entirely accurate. You were with us, if you weren’t I don’t think I would have been able to relax and enjoy it as much as I did. You continue to be so incredibly...

distractions

Dear Jakey, I have found myself restless the last few days and am grateful for the distraction of Thanksgiving. I keep picturing you last year at Thanksgiving dinner at Prime. You were so handsome and so brave. You were in your spica and I am sure you weren’t...

love story, a year later

Dear Jakey, It is with some hesitation that I write to you tonight. It was a year ago when we went to MGH so that you could get your Spica cast put on. It was about this day, a year ago, that I wrote a letter to you called Love Story. I remember so clearly how I felt...