“Hope” is the thing with feathers –That perches in the soul –And sings the tune without the words –And never stops – at all – And sweetest – in the Gale – is heard –And sore must be the storm –That could abash the little BirdThat kept so many warm – I’ve heard it in […]

This past weekend, Hilary and I made our annual holiday pilgrimage to the Bay Area.  Our primary purpose was to visit Hilary’s 92- year-old mom, Virginia, and have lunch with Hilary’s family on Sunday.  We were also excited to meet our recently found 52-year-old nephew and his fiancée—but more on that later.  Saturday night we […]

It is one of the mysteries of our nature that a man, all unprepared, can receive a thunder-stroke like that and live. Mark Twain on the death of his second daughter. A recent share by one of the dads on the Helping Parents Heal FB page caught my eye. In the Lakota/Sioux tradition, a person […]

“You can’t tell a book by its cover.”   I beg to differ. During most of 2015, and with the incredible help and guidance of my editor, Jan Weeks, we began to pull our book together.   By September the manuscript was pretty much done and I decided to self-publish using Amazon’s Create Space platform—now known as […]

I wanted to do a little follow up on our recent post REMEMBRANCE https://www.writemesomethingbeautiful.com/2019/10/18/the-california-poppy/ First, I want to thank those who ‘showed me the ink!’ This from my niece, Erin: Jimmy was the inspiration for my “Love” ambigram tattoo – able to be read both by me and others. Jimmy had nothing but love to […]

Introduction An article written by Colleen Peters caught my eye in the July 4, 2012 Sunday edition of the San Diego Union Tribune.  I quickly realized it was another Miracles In a Box story and strikingly similar to the one we had recently shared on Write Me Something Beautiful:   THE IWO JIMA LETTER But this […]