Christmas Hurts!
December 18th 08 Dear Anne: I was just bending over the kitchen sink crying. Sobbing. I don’t want to turn on the radio and listen to cheery Christmas music, or go into stores and watch everybody spending money on gifts and stuff for the special foods they make every year. This year, the thought of […]
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The 2008 Election: Impossible Dream?
October 31, 2008 Dear Anne and Carter: Today is Halloween, my favorite holiday. I like it much better than Christmas; but this year I didn’t even get dressed up. Larry and I took a break from the video we are making, turned the lights off and went to a movie. We didn’t want to stay […]
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The Tree Whisperer
Tuesday, October 7, 2008 Dear Anne and Carter: Today instead on Invisible Grandma, I think I should be named ‘The Tree Whisperer.’ Look at these pictures of a cypress tree in our back yard before and after (!) the landscapers in this housing complex got to it! I literally cried when I first saw this […]
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Arlington West: Veterans for Peace Memorial
Monday August 26, 2008 Dear Anne and Carter: Yesterday morning I took a walk on the boulevard (Carrillo Ave) in Santa Barbara. It is at the end of their main shopping street where a wharf begins that has more shops and restaurants. Your father and his brother Uncle Ted, who is now a soldier, used […]
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My First Letter: Your First Day of School
August 20, 2008 Dear Anne: You will be having your first day of school sometime this week! That must be exciting! Or is it scary? How would you describe it to me? Would you call and tell me? Or send me pictures? I would really REALLY love that. I still have a photo of your […]
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