“I got a postcard from Cate!” I yelled as I hurried in from the mailbox. This was a big deal. It was the first one I’d ever gotten from my 8-year-old pen-pal. She was entering into a new realm… one which I remember, being on vacation and looking on those carrels for something, anything, that…
Cate Ferrall, my 8-year old penpal, is an expert puzzle-maker. She sent me one a few days ago — which was a son-of-a-gun to put together. Vin and I both worked on it every time we passed by it on the front hall table. But there seems to be a problem. I wrote Cate this…
Cate Ferrall, my 8-year-old penpal from New York, asked a searing question. “I wanted to know what a typewritter is like sines you have one mabye you could tell me about it. I see typewritters in movies. *** I thought about my answer for a few days, because I sensed this was an important question that…
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Justin’s got youth, good looks and talent — and something I covet. He’s the proud owner of a portable typewriter he takes on the road when he travels. We made a pledge when I visited him at his office in New York — and he let me bang on the keys — that we’d only…
When I was about nine, my father had a colleague named Marie Tashima who loved children but had never married or had her own. Daddy would drop me off at Marie Tashima’s house, and we’d have tea — she had a blue porcelain tea set from Japan — and she’d show me wonders of the…
Justin Wilkes is my hero. He promised his new wife that he’d go “off the grid” on their honeymoon. No computer. No phone. But he couldn’t go cold turkey. So he figured out a way to stay in touch: he bought a portable typewriter!! When I was in New York for a RISD Board meeting,…
It had been a while since I last heard from Cate Ferrall. She’s a busy 2nd grader, and I didn’t want to interfere with her homework. But I was thinking of her even so, and vowed that when school ended and summer began, I’d write her a quick note to say “hi”. She beat me…
The first thing I do when I get home from a trip is check the mail. I also send out whatever small gifts I’ve picked up — and start my distribution/packaging unit. By ten o’clock last night, I’d gotten a fair number of letters & envelopes, clippings & ‘thinking of you’ notes out. The black…
Gloria Shepard loves stickers, butterflies, kitty cats, and flowers. She managed to get almost all of them represented in the birthday greeting she sent me this year. She also enclosed a sheet of butterfly stickers for me to use. I’m already figuring out what the next worthy envelope will be. It’s fun to have a…
