Happy Birthday Annie!
October 24th and you are 14 years old. I have no idea what you look like as a young woman or how comfortable or happy you are with school, your friends, your sisters and family. Since all I can do right now is just imagine what kind of celebration you had, today in honor of […]
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Family Matters, Letters: Shared & Saved
Happy Resurrection Day!
April 9, 2012 Dear Anne and Carter: Yesterday was Easter, and my eyes teared up as they do most weeks, as I watched the children file into our ‘rockin’ Gospel church’ (www.innerlightministries.com). Not too many people had on ‘Easter bonnets’ as I did. But as that tune of a very old song went came to […]
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Happy Birthday! 11 is Huge!
February 18, 2011 Dear Carter … Happy Happy Birthday Ba-a-aby! How great to talk to you on your birthday! As you can see from the collage birthday card I mailed … the theme is “Eleven is Huge!” What I meant is that your teenage years are just around the corner, and your years as a […]
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Holidays are Hard for Invisible Grandparents
December 4, 2010 Dear Anne & Carter, no, actually this is for Suzie: Anne’s mother: Holiday seasons are hard on invisible grandparents! Do you realize that? Is there room for me, the biological grandmother of your firstborn, in that mind and memory of yours? Oh how I wish that were the case. I am taking […]
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Mothers Day Twenty-ten
MOTHERS DAY 2010 Mothers Day Twenty-ten Dear Brad: I am in Palm Springs alone. Alone by choice, with my writing and my thoughts on Mother’s Day. And I just “got” that I need to write the most difficult letter I needed to, and it is to you. My firstborn son. Right now Larry is trying […]
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Great Grandma Wilkin’s Memories
January 13th 2010 Dear Anne and Carter: I’ve told you about how I’ve always wanted to be a writer, right? Actually my mother, your great grandmother who is still alive at 89 and living in a retirement home in New Jersey, did too. When my sisters and I were in grade school, she was an […]
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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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