Goodbye letter to a mother with dementia is bitter sweet
I received this letter today and I wondered if I should post it. It isn’t all flowery and nice, but it is reality. And there is definitely love in it. I thought I should post it so that others who are primary care givers for loved ones with dementia will see that it’s OK to […]
Doug shares a letter to his dad as they make the decision to take him off life support.
This moving letter came to me recently. It shows the love and pain that goes into the decision to take a loved one off life support. I thought I’d share it with you: Dad, I wanted to talk to you and tell you what’s going on. We are gonna pull the intubation tube out of […]
Fred Stobaugh writes a poem to his late wife, Sweet Lorraine
By now you may have heard about the sweet story of 96-year-old widower, Fred Stobaugh who wrote a love poem to his wife and sent it into Green Shoe Studio’s contest to become a produced song. When everyone else was sending in their entries via YouTube, Fred’s came by US Postal Service. But it’s sincerity […]
Success story: Son discusses his goodbye letter with mother
I was speaking with a friend who told me that he had written his mother a goodbye letter and gave it to her on her birthday a couple of months ago. He said that he was unable to say in person to her all the things that he was able, over some time, to put […]
Mother’s Day is coming up… 4 tips on how to write Mom a note that is a gift from the heart.
I wrote my thoughts–not a letter per se– to my Mom several years ago. I just re-read it and teared up realizing how much my mother means to me. The note I wrote her was almost as poignant for me years later as it was for her when she first received it as her Mother’s […]
Life Of Pi Offers A Lesson In Saying Goodbye
I read the book, Life Of Pi, a while ago. But more recently I saw the movie (and the imagery was absolutely breathtaking) and realized at the end that the adult Pi Patel suffered a life of not saying goodbye properly. He can’t remember saying goodbye to the love of his life as he left […]
Please Don’t Write A Goodbye Letter To America
I had someone contact me recently after the third presidential debate saying that he was so fed up with politicians telling everyone what we want to hear, not what they really believe. With all the campaign rhetoric and mudslinging by all parties involved, my friend suggested that our country was going you know where in […]
Reinventing yourself
Wow. I didn’t think of writing a last goodbye letter to your old self as you decide to turn over a new leaf. Read an excerpt from a letter I recently received: I realize that everyone has their own problems to handle. I can’t expect someone else to take care of me. After months of […]
Mitt Romney, Paul Ryan, Republican National Convention speakers–do they speak from the heart?
I heard Paul Ryan speak at the RNC last night. Boy, he sounded good. I would, too, if I had some of the top speech writers in the country putting words in my mouth! Now, before everyone goes to send me evil e-mail saying that I’m a bleeding heart liberal (or worse) I know that […]
A Letter From Iwo Jima
This amazing piece of history was submitted recently and I’d like to share it. It is a letter postmarked February 26, 1945. It is from Purple Heart recipient Pfc. Robert D. Liming of the US Marine Corps as he served in Iwo Jima. Here’s what he wrote: Iwo Jima Dear Mother and All: […]