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 | 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 | Apr 1, 2012 | Letters to Jakey, Uncategorized
Dear Jakey, On Valentine’s Day Miss Trish left you a beautiful note and I promised you I would write it for you and I forgot. So here it is, better late than never: Dear Jakey, Well buddy, it’s Valentine’s Day today and our hearts are missing you...
by Heather Straughter | Mar 5, 2012 | Letters to Jakey, Uncategorized
Dear Jakey, It seems that all around me, or at least in this world that I know so well, there is so much death lately. And such hardships for little fighters. And Jakey, it sort of crushes me each time but I also can’t stop following the stories and the fights...
