"To die would be an awfully big adventure" -Peter Pan
Dear Ry,Not a day goes by that I don’t replay the last night I had with you here on this earth. I am haunted by the events that went on before you left us, what if we hadn’t done all the things we did...
View ArticleMormor
Dear Mormor,When I was about 13 or 14 I was visiting you over summer break in Sweden and you asked me to come to the grocery store…I remember looking at my summer friends and I said I didn’t want to...
View ArticleIf You Love Something
Dear Jackson,I don’t know if you knew this, but I was in love with you for so long, maybe five years or so. And recently, I have died watching you being enamored in her. I guess it fits; you are the...
View ArticleThe Things I Never Say
Dear M,Whenever we speak, we go around in circles. In the end it all ends up the same way it always has and we both just feel pain. I always say I have said everything I have needed to, but it’s never...
View ArticleMy Lost Love
Dear Emily, When we first me you were only 16 and I was 19. I would flirt with you all the time, although I’m not sure if you noticed or not. I knew that it wasn’t ok for us to be together as I was in...
View ArticleNow That it's Over
Paul,I’m tired. I’m tired of letting you down. Tired of never being enough. Tired of being stonewalled. Tired of being left. Tired of your wandering eyes.I am tired of writing. Explaining. Crying....
View ArticleGoodbye, Again
Dear Mom,I thought a letter like this would start with fuck you. But I can’t be angry anymore. I spent twenty long years being angry and when I sealed my letter and sent it off to the judge, it wasn’t...
View ArticleInto the Universe
Dearest Halbes, It’s New Year’s Day. Last night, my thoughts were going around and around in my head always coming back to you. I kept wondering if I should send you a message or if that would offend...
View ArticleAll the Reasons Why
Amy,What I should have said was that I’m a neurotic child who lashes out at others to compensate for the faults I find in myself. If I had told you this up front, then maybe things would have been...
View ArticleI'll Just Be Waiting
Dear C,You would have thought I was still head over heels in love with you. You would have thought that I still cannot let a single day go by without crying for what could have been. You might think...
View ArticleYou Jump, I jump. Remember?
K,Remember that day when you said my charm doesn’t work on you? Remember that day when I assholingly asked you how much you weigh? Remember that day when the two of us were watching Pitch Perfect in...
View ArticleI'm Sorry I wasn't enough
Dear Jeff,It’s almost been a year since you came back into my life. As I sit and look back it’s been a crazy roller coaster. This friend I had not seen from High School came back into my life at tough...
View ArticleThe Love I Lost but the Me I Gained Back
Jasmine,Man, it has been 5 and half years since you tried to take your life. It changed my life completely and opened my life to a better life with you and our son. Thank you for not dying on me. It...
View ArticleI need to consider myself a lucky one…
Dear Matt, I need to consider myself a lucky one… I have experienced a true love. A soulmate. The kind of love that runs so deep you wonder years later if it has somehow become apart of your blood....
View ArticleTo my beloved Emmijane
E, No matter what your friends have told you or led you to believe, my love for you is neither a mid-life crisis or an infatuation.I love you!It’s been over a thousand days, and I still miss you.I’ve...
View ArticleI Need to Be Brave
My love,There have been more than one occasion when my family members made racist comments in your presence. Each time, I froze and felt like I was on fire. I didn’t know what to do. I was afraid of...
View ArticleChanging my Stripes
To those with a disability, I regret the day I did not speak up when I saw him ridicule people with disabilities. It is a day I struggle with often in my conscious. I have grown up knowing, caring for,...
View ArticleYou Make me Uncomfortable
Dear You,You make me uncomfortable. I don’t know if you this, I don’t know if you’re aware, or if you can’t tell because you’re uncomfortable too, or if you just haven’t noticed yet, but you make me so...
View ArticleI Love You Too
Dear Granddad, Whenever I think of you, all I can remember is that awful moment on the hill, on what would be one of the last summers I saw you. I was a petulant, angered teen and just wanted to have...
View ArticleMy Dear Teacher
Dear Mr,I was once in love with you. It’s been such a long time… I still remember how happy you made me feel. I always looked forward to your classes, even though we didn’t talk much and I never had...
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