11
November
25 letters a week, Phil produces…
Phil — my father’s best friend as a former Professor – is in the middle here. I don’t know who the other two gentlemen are…but I’m sure they’re important. Please Share
11
November
To: Penpal Annika.
Sent tonight to Annika, who just got a Royal (what she requested for her 16th birthday) I also sent along with a few stamps for encouragement of “snail mail”. Please Share
10
November
Doris and Bernie — icons of Newport, Rhode Island.
Doris and Bernie are icons of Newport, Rhode Island. They were major influences in corporate America, and still lead a major social life as philanthropists. When I first met Doris, she had the biggest purple hat of any lady at the tea. I was a bit intimidated, since I’m not a hat-wearer, but my mother-in-law…
10
November
I always encourage new typists, especially when they get their own machine.
My friend’s Eric’s daughter, age 16, asked for and received the ultimate: her own new/used typewriter. I told her Dad, “I’ll write her a note” when I heard the good news. I hope this indicates a trend — that teenagers are getting into how cool it is to own a machine. I suspect, however, that…
9
November
Kate, editor of Palo Alto High School’s “Campanile”.
Kate was one of the Editors of the Paly High newspaper, “The Campanile”. I was too — (hand over mouth) — 40 years ago. I was the first woman editor the paper had elected in twelve years, as I recall. How times have morphed. Now the paper is digital and online. No more cutting &…
4
October
A lost Dora doll and Halloween stickers.
It’s fun when a pen-pal realizes “‘I can write the news of the day in my letters!” In this case, Cate, age 6, started telling me about the drama of how her younger sister Grace lost her Dora doll at her grandmother’s. Since I gave Grace the Dora doll, I know this implies a new…
4
October
How to tell someone you already have it…lesson by Cate, age 6.
We always agonize when we get something that we already have. Why is that? Maybe my penpal Cate, age 6, knows the easy answer. Just tell them you have one, but you can always use another. Please Share
4
October
Cate, my six-year-old penpal…keeping her supplied.
All little girls love glittery backpacks, or at least Jamie did, and sparkly ones you decorate yourself are even better. I found one that came with permanent marker pens, and had that here for Cate, my little 6-year-old friend who lives in New York… she worked on it but couldn’t get the whole thing…
3
September
Outgoing mail after a one-day holiday…9 total.
I’m not generally very numerically-oriented. Math was always my worst subject and it was only thanks to Gregory M. helping tutor me in high school that I made it through Alegebra and Geometry. Even so, I have one small but happy counting ritual. After my nightly meditation — after I’ve written my letters to whomever…
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May
College rah-rah.
My niece is in her first year at University of Oregon. Sadly, my sister Kitty passed away when Kuu was 10. I try to stay in touch with Kuu and give her the kind of ”rah rah’ advice her Mom might have if she was alive. Please Share