by Heather Straughter | Dec 8, 2013 | Letters to Jakey, Uncategorized
Dear Jakey,So today has come and now it is almost over. As this day approaches it brings about so many different feelings: anticipation mixed with dread, anxiety combined with melancholy and a need to simultaneously make time slow down and speed up. We went to...
by Heather Straughter | Dec 3, 2013 | Letters to Jakey, Uncategorized
Dear Jakey, I started this letter to you on Sunday with the intentions of writing an optimistic and positive letter. I got about 3 lines in and I quit. And tonight I erased them. It just feels entirely inauthentic to write about being thankful at this time of year....
by Heather Straughter | Nov 26, 2013 | Letters to Jakey, Uncategorized
Dear Jakey,Wow, a lot of time has passed. More time than I am comfortable with but that is the strange thing about this new life of mine. There is no real ability to slow down the passage of time. I think I depended on you for that. You helped me and us know when to...
by Heather Straughter | Jun 27, 2013 | Letters to Jakey, Uncategorized
Dear Jakey, Life doesn’t get any easier without you. I keep thinking it will but it doesn’t. We just got back from another trip. We went to see Sarena and spent the weekend with her in San Francisco and then we went to Las Vegas. On our very first night we...
by Heather Straughter | Jun 4, 2013 | Letters to Jakey, Uncategorized
Dear Jakey, I had one of those moments yesterday when I was thinking about how much has changed when since you left us and it all feels so strange. Ethan had tkd last night and then I took the adult class after him. Ethan is getting ready to test for recommended brown...
by Heather Straughter | May 21, 2013 | Letters to Jakey, Uncategorized
Dear Jakey, Another little boy that I never knew but followed a little through friends of friends on facebook died. He was one of those boys that reminded me of you, and part of this whole world of kids like you that I never really knew about until after you died....
