Sitemap - 2024 - "CJ's World on Substack"
Flash Fiction: The Many Faces of Grief
One Day You'll be the Aging Parent
From Inspiration to an Idea to a Book
There are Writers, and there are Writers
What are Ad Agencies Telling Us?
Barking Spiders Here and There ...
Oh What a Wicked Web we Weave ...
The All-Important Reset Button
Remembering Something Cringeworthy
Childhood Should be Carefree and Happy
Identify, Acknowledge, Sympathize
Toddlers: Less Rules, More Attention
Iron Butterfly: “In-a-gadda-da-vida”
Double Entendre: A Bawdy Literary Device
Do you feel Accomplished in Life?
Vietnam Vets' Blog: Memoirs from Nam
The Reader Effect of Poetry...
Some little known or odd personal facts.
Pointers for reading your poetry aloud
Don't Kids say the Darndest Things?
Children are Vulnerable and Trusting
"Sugar and Spice and Everything Nice ..."
Grief: What Happens when you bury it.
Getting Daughters Through Their Teens
The All American Time Warp ...
Children's Poem: "Playing Cowboy"
If Days are Measured in Minutes
Writers, be Kind to your Editor
Flight Attendant, My First Day
Working Moms vs. Stay at Home Moms
We all have a Beginning and an End
If Our Fur Child Could Talk ...
Bats, Monsters and Skeletons, Oh My ...
Halloween: Costumes for Couples
Poem for McKenzie: Her True Story
When a Song is Stuck in your Mind
Oxymorons are Never “Old News” …
Nicknames, Nom de Plumes, and Thee
School Visits: Children's Poets & Authors
The Funny Things Children Say.
Average Writers vs. Good or Great Writers
#1 Fear: Public Speaking #2 Fear: Death
Honest is the Mind of a 3 year-old
The Funniest Things I've Ever Seen
When I was You and You Were Me ...
Ad Agencies and Their Commercials
"To Realize the Value Of Time"
Let's Compare Two Uncomparables
Jake and the "sit-choo-way-shun"
Of Poets, Strippers, and Hypocrites
For Jared who Lost his Best Friend to Cancer
Is there Anything You're Finicky About?
I'll be a Poet. Writing Poems Looks Easy.
Grandma's Treasures in the Attic
Children's Poem, "Daddy's Boots"
The Girl with the Ice-Blue Eyes
Memorable Moment in a Rest Area
Values and Virtues to Live by...
Of Patience and Cherry Popsicles
What has been The Most Important Element in your Life?
Flying, Pirates, and Never Aging
There Are So Many How Manys ...
Happy is a Pair of Soft Worn Blue Jeans
What’s Your Best Advice From a Child?
Why Does a Good Relationship Fail?
No Expiration Date for Kindness
2 Children's Poets Collaborate
Teacher Said, "Don't Eat Meat"
Inspiration Came in a Mayonnaise Jar
Dealing with Monsters in their Bedroom
What is the Meaning of your Life?
What it Means to Care for the Elderly
The Most Awkward Situation ...
Q: “How did you feel when you turned 30? Do most people feel a certain way at 30?”
The Ice Cream Cone, by CJ Heck
Are Humor and Intelligence Connected?
I Remember One Time my Dad ...
Can Trust Be Rebuilt, Once Broken?
Could You Live in a Lighthouse?
“The Earth Laughs in Flowers.”
What Do You Regret Giving Your Children?
What are Hard Truths About Online Relationships?
Why do Some People Romanticize Pain?
What's the Weirdest Flight You've Taken?
Which Virtue is the Most Overrated?
My Most Frightening Experience.
I Always Called it "Child-Speak"
How do you Overcome Embarrassment?
At What Age are we Actually an Adult?
You Won't Know Til You Try ...
What Brought the Most Change in Your Life?
True Story of One Woman’s Courage
What Actually is Common Sense?
My Biggest Reason to Get Published
The Obnoxious Passenger on TWA
The Craziest Thing I Did in High School
Should We Let Toddlers Choose?
Who Are You Online vs. Offline?
... We Thought it Would Last Forever
The Long Road to Getting Published
Curiosity: Inquisitive Thinking
A Dead Ringer is a Doppelganger is a Twin
Voluntary and Involuntary Thought
The Personification of Christmas
The Peopling of Personification
Echoes and Echoes of Inspiration
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Sometimes, Friendship "Happens"
Bits and Pieces From a Writer's Soul