What questions do you wish you had asked your mother, father, grandparent or special friend while they were still alive? Typewriting to Heaven and Back is a memoir by Karen Kaplan, whose old Royal Typewriter becomes the catalyst for some heartfelt conversations with her father, who passed away ten years previously. Typewriting to Heaven...and Back was my way of healing from the loss of my dad. Perhaps each of us is secretly seeking to understand death and also heal our hearts. I found that I could accomplish this through typing conversations with my dad. W riting to a loved one who has passed, letting that person know how you were feeling or simply how your day went could fill the loss and ease the grief.