Archive for Parents/Children/Family
And here are all of the 1977 letters: February 22, 1977 A brief thank-you note from Jay for some birthday presents. Also February 22, 1977 A brief thank-you note from Jed for some birthday presents. (My first letter written in cursive!) March 22, 1977 Notes from Peter and Marcy in anticipation of George and Helen […]
Here are the rest of the letters exchanged during the six weeks of Jay’s and my one-month visit to see George and Helen and aunts and uncles and cousins in June and July 1976. June 29, 1976 Helen tells Peter and Marcy how Jed and Jay’s visit is going. “[George] is most impressed with these […]
And now I’ve fallen even further behind in posting links to family-history letters. Here’s a catchup post through the end of 1975; I’ll do another one for 1976-so-far. Things included below: Some art, assorted life updates, a major change to the foster home, two more moves, and the first letter written by Jay. Specifically: November […]
This week in my family history project: Life updates and thank-yous, and a piece of kid art. January 22, 1974 Peter to George: “I’d very much enjoy listening to a tape of some of your [organ] repertoire; no matter what style you played, to me it would always be ‘pop music.’” …and other assorted notes […]
Oops, I forgot to post here last week. So here are two weeks’ worth of updates in my family history project. The first letter below is also the first substantive letter after a six-month gap, during which many things happened, including moving to Santa Rosa and starting a foster home. A quick overview of the […]
This week in my family history project: I spent a while yesterday and this morning digitizing a letter from Marcy that I had thought was from November, 1973—only to discover after it was ready to post that it must have instead been written in early 1974. So it turns out that the next substantive letter […]
This week in my family history project: Several undated “letters” that consist mostly of art by me and Jay with accompanying descriptions of what the art is intended to portray. …I’ve also now updated my meta entry from last week, because I realized that I left out an entire address! I think this six-month gap […]
This week in my family history project: Peter is unhappy about his work situation. Notes about what Jay and I want to be when we grow up and how Marcy’s garden is going. We suddenly shift course and start a foster home. April 16, 1973 In which Peter is unhappy about his work situation. “even […]
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:...