CJ's Writer Thoughts

Children Love Bugs! Why are children so fascinated with bugs? Is it because they see them as something amazing, something funny, or ju...

Teaching Grampa to Selfie This week, I made a comment on my Facebook page and mentioned that I've seen a few selfies where you can...

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

Hi, I'm CJ/ Whether you are an Author, Reader, a Contributing Writer, or a combination, and now My Friend, I thank you.  It's b...

Angel Sleeping There are angels all around us, complete with halos and wings. If you don't believe what I tell you, go in...

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...

Raiding the Cookie Jar I grew up in the days when the Nickels Bread truck would make home deliveries every Saturday morning. The bread m...

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 ...

I remember one of the hardest things about growing up was learning all of the rules of ... growing up. Things were always either black ...

Who the heck is CJ Heck? With a bored sigh, you probably think, "Oh, she writes children's poetry ... just like hundreds of ot...

Fresh Lemonade With my coffee this morning, I was thinking about one day when I still lived in Pennsylvania.  It was summer and I was d...

Playing Dress Up I remember one of the hardest things about being a child was learning the rules of growing up.  To a kid, things wer...

Ten Piggies Ten Little Piggies by CJ Heck  Ten little piggies standing in a line. Mom and daddy told me the piggies ALL are...

Mr. Bones Mr. Bones by CJ Heck I was looking up some haunted stuff because it’s Halloween. I saw bla...

Little Girl and Teddy Bear “There’s just something about a teddy bear that’s impossible to explain. When you hold one in your arms, you...

The Joy of Finding a Mud Puddle There are no seven wonders of the world in the eyes of a child. There are seven million. ~Walt Streig...