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Learn from my friend’s mistakes–he’s trying to!

I have a friend who has told me this story a couple of times: He has older friends that he thinks he’ll take to lunch, or go visit, or do something fun with, but–although his intensions are good–the time to do these things just never seems to materialize.  He told me recently that it makes […]

I understand! It’s hard to write a goodbye letter.

I have to admit.  I’m embarrassed.  I’ve been encouraging others to write goodbye letters to loved ones when they move away, get deployed, get married, move out of the house, or are close to the end of life.  But I let an opportunity slip by. My elderly friend was moving out of state to a […]

What did Nicholas Ivie leave behind?

No one will dispute that the loss of Nicholas Ivie, the Border Patrol agent who was shot in the line of duty in the early hours of October 2, is a tragedy.  From all accounts he was a well loved and respected man.  He left behind an honorable legacy.  While many are investigating the circumstances […]

New tagline?

Happy weekend! I started my weekend last night at dinner with friends. My friend suggested that let people know that the Last Goodbye Letters tagline was too narrow because it mentions ‘children to parents’ when the project has expanded to lots of different kinds of goodbyes. Who wants to give me suggestions for revised taglines? […]

The Olympics Inspire–but so do every day people

The Olympics are pretty inspiring, but I’ve gotten some inspiring letters recently as contributions for Last Goodbye Letters.  One of them, from a sister to her brother, inspires us to move on positively.  She says, “With the writing of these words I say goodbye to you. Not goodbye to your memory, but goodbye to the […]

Publicity works! — The first official story about this project

Thank you to the Arizona Republic for doing a write up about our project in this week’s paper.  If you missed it, here’s a link: Arizona Republic:  Gilbert Woman In Search Of ‘Goodbye Letters’ For Book This has generated several letters and ideas that others have shared.  It’s amazing how many good ideas come from […]

Thanks for the suggestions

There have been questions from others about why we are limiting our letters to only children to their parents–WE’RE NOT!!! I know, I know…our logo says that, but avid followers of this project know that we are being open minded.  We have contacted hospice organizations and have sent letters out to community newsletters.  Here’s a […]

Five ways you can help us get the word out…

Sigh.  This project needs a jump start.  And you can help!  I’ve thought of five (easy) ways you can help us get the word out about needing some letter contributions.  Let me restate that–we need lots and lots of letter contributions!  Here are my ideas  (if you have more, please share!) 1.  Ask five friends […]

Who needs another cookbook?

My first thought when I was inspired to start this project was, “Really?  Who needs another inspirational book?  How is this going to help others?” Then I realized that there are about a billion cookbooks published every year, but apparently foodies still want more.  Even though there are lots of great inspirational books out there, […]

Wearing your heart on your sleeve isn’t so bad!

Up until today, I’ve been doing all the behind the scenes work on this project.  Keeping busy at it, too!  I’ve tried to get this blog up and somewhat functional.  I’m working on understanding Facebook.  I’m going to try to get a YouTube channel to post a video.  I’ve got a mailing address and business […]