CJ's Writer Thoughts

CJ To love is to risk not being loved in return. To hope is to risk feeling pain. To try is to risk failure, but risk must be taken...

Mama - Joanne Parrish A Treasure in the Attic by CJ Heck There's magic in an attic when you're patient ...

Loaded Birthday Cake "Beautiful young people are accidents of nature; beautiful old people are works of art." ~Eleanor Roos...

To a Snowflake ... by CJ Heck Hello there, little snowflake. Where are all your friends? Should ...

Douglas "Doc" Kempf In Loving Memory Douglas Scott “Doc” Kempf KIA Vietnam September 5, 1969 Sp4 US Army Com...

Poetry bares us to the soul ... A poet is a lonely being whose heart is torn by secret sufferings, but whose lips are so strangely f...

Playing Dress Up If I was asked to name the one thing I'm most proud of, it would be my three daughters. Being their mother wa...

Lady Waiting in Bus Terminal "You may trod me in the very dirt. But still, like dust, I'll rise."  ~Maya Angelou ...

CJ at Three Pretty much all of the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by children.  ~Oliver Wendell Holmes A couple o...

A Real Stinker ... Stinkers and Gems Sometimes, I write a real stinker ... sometimes, I write a nice gem. More o...

A Little Boy Climbing a Rock I love watching a child who is deep in the world of pretending. You can usually tell they're pretendi...

Poetry Isn't Easy A friend once asked me why I write poetry. She had a creepy look on her face that told me she secretly equate...

Baby in a Swing When my grandchildren were tiny, I had the cutest baby swing. It was molded plastic and it had a safety bar across th...

Daddy's Boots  Daddy left his boots for me  and here I have to stay,  'cause daddy is a soldier.  I'm in charge ...

A Box for Goodwill As a friend, I had come to help yet one more time and I watched as she set  the cardboard box on the fl...

His Hands I was thinking, you can tell so much about a man by looking at his hands.  Hands are so expressive. They can be kind, gene...

You've probably been wondering where the heck I've been for the last couple of months, and for that, I do apologize.  I was working...