Category Archives: Love Letters
Littlest Lullaby, you go ahead and name it when you’re ready.
Self love is a concept more tangled to me than the mess of Christmas lights now harbored up in my attic for another 300 or so days. I’ve struggled with it. A lot. And every time another letter request comes … Continue reading
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Meet Hannah: She needs your love letter today.
It’s been tough to write here lately. If I am being honest, I work a good ten hours a day and all I am left with, when I reach the keys, is speechlessness. Over all of you and what you’ve … Continue reading
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The Forgotten Fairy Tale of Should’ve, Could’ve & Would’ve
This is a story made for the day when you wake up, Hair Knotted by the Pull of your Pillow, and stumble straight into Should’ve & Could’ve & Would’ve: a trio of sisters that the world should call witches, for they’ll snatch up your dreams and scarf down your desires, and Fix You Up Pretty in a Too Tiny Box that God Never Made You For. Continue reading
Filed under Creative Fiction, Love Letters
One year ago today: 365 days and 550 love letters later…
One year ago today, life snuck up from behind me, handed me a black Sharpie, and announced to me that she was going to change forever. Right in Front of My Eyes. “Here, here, take this,” Life said, handing off … Continue reading
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The world called…. it needs your love letters.
I decided to stop writing love letters on a Monday and a reporter from the Wall Street Journal called me on Tuesday to talk about… you guessed it: Love Letters. That’s how it always works though, right? We’re sitting before … Continue reading
Filed under Loneliness, Love Letters
Nine Months Later… No, I did not birth a baby but I did write 368 love letters: Video Update
So the last time I gave an update on the love letters the Christmas bells were swinging and we were hanging mistletoe… I think it’s about time I filled you in on the last nine months. ***This is actually an … Continue reading
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One day I will be able to say to my Little Ones: “This is how your Mommy came to write 207 Love Letters to 207 Strangers”
We sat in over-sized Alice chairs admiring the spouts of our teapots, appropriately short and stout, as they poured a sweet elixir into the bottom of our antique cups. We clinked our tea cups together and we made a toast. … Continue reading
Filed under Humanity, Life Lessons, Loneliness, Love Letters, Love Yourself, Thank You, Uncategorized
Let’s Turn Our Lives into A Christmas Carol that the World Just Itches to Hear A Single Note of.
So I have been on Facebook for the past half hour and it is official. Facebook Official, if you will call it that. There is no way to defriend your own self on Facebook. Come on Mark Zuckerberg, how did … Continue reading
Filed under Big City, Big Dreams, Happiness, Life Lessons, Love Is..., Love Letters, Uncategorized
Sara Bareilles would not write you a love song but I want to write you a love letter… Seriously.
It really is no wonder why Nicholas Sparks seems to have reserved seating when it comes to the New York Times Best Seller Lists. The man has found a fruit that most cannot ignore and he wrings out the sweet … Continue reading
Filed under Love Is..., Love Letters, Love Yourself, Simply Living, Thank You
