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Walking through grief with love letters.
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Henry’s Joy
Henry’s Joy
I dip my toe in the grief and slowly, slowly, start to swim through the familiar pain. It is exquisite, with sharp edges, piercing in new…
Heidi Young
Mar 29, 2019
What It Was
What It Was
I try to wear this new lipstick, hoping it will bring me back to myself. Maybe vanity will be its own distraction. You are still you, I…
Heidi Young
Mar 24, 2019
4
4
Today you should be 4.
Heidi Young
Feb 19, 2019
There Are No Monsters, I Told You
There Are No Monsters, I Told You
There are no monsters, I promised, but it didn’t keep you from running into our bed every night. I would wake up, next to you, with no…
Heidi Young
Feb 5, 2019
You Need to Know that You Will Be Okay
You Need to Know that You Will Be Okay
You will make it. Even at times when everything is wrong, when you are bewildered to find yourself weeping in an emergency room, you need…
Heidi Young
Feb 1, 2019
A Parallel Universe
A Parallel Universe
To my little Henry sunshine,
Heidi Young
Jan 27, 2019
How to Survive This Very Worst Thing — A Love Letter to You
How to Survive This Very Worst Thing — A Love Letter to You
When our beautiful toddler son, Henry, died unexpectedly in November 2018, I was sure the pain itself would crush me too. I would wake up…
Heidi Young
Jan 20, 2019
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Let November Go
Let November Go
My sweet H, what November has taken from us, I cannot forgive. November is a knife to the heart with all of it’s golden red beauty. It is…
Heidi Young
Jan 19, 2019
Grief is the Question
Grief is the Question
Dear H,
Heidi Young
Jan 18, 2019
Hold
Hold
“Can I hold your hand,” you ask me in the movie theater, and I blush with all the teenager love I feel for you. We hold hands and I still…
Heidi Young
Jan 18, 2019
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