Archive for Parents/Children/Family
I’m posting four cards and letters this week instead of the usual three; this week covers the rest of our family’s 1971 trip to Philadelphia to see my mother’s mother. It also features the first two letters “from” me—at least one of them includes at least one direct quote from me, but I’m otherwise uncertain […]
Letters from both of my parents, from late 1970 and early 1971, about what the family had been up to, and about Christmas and materialism and such. November and December, 1970 In which Marcy writes about the war in Vietnam, the materialism of Christmas, and the importance of staying connected with family. Also includes unusually […]
Today is the thirteenth anniversary of the day my father was killed. A lot of years, I get tense and irritable in the couple of weeks leading up to the anniversary. This year, I’ve been pretty much fine. A little sad, and a little scattered (have had a hard time focusing and a hard time […]
Last night, I had dinner with family, and audio-recorded some family stories, and received two amazing troves of family documents:...
We've digitized a set of 23 letters from my mother to her parents, dated 1964 through 1968; I've been posting...
I spent today mostly hanging out with family, which was great. Saw one niece in a production of Lion King...
A couple years ago, I was given an amazing trove: a dozen letters from my mother to her parents, written...
Twelve years ago today, my father was killed. I've been off-kilter for the past couple weeks; sometimes fine, sometimes sad...
In today's mail: Another envelope from the FBI! In response to my FOIA request about my father, which I filed...
Among my old family papers is a folder containing a handwritten document by my grandmother Helen, in which she described...
For weeks, I've been meaning to post here, but I keep shying away, for reasons not entirely clear to me....
I recently had occasion to stop by Addiction is..., a collection of about fifteen nonfiction pieces that, individually and together,...