Letter of the Week
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What strategies do you use to cope with negative feelings? Humor sometimes. I was writing an essay yesterday. The first paragraph is my writing. The second must have picked up by a phone conversation in the other room mixed with one with my son in Berlin. There was a social event in our neighborhood that…
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What is your favorite season of year? Why? I like asparagus, but not quite to the extreme that those in Germany do. Still I love this season in German Germany. Everything centers around asparagus, and it is served at almost every single meal. Asparagus & Strawberry Soup (Spargel-Erdbeersuppe) A favorite seasonal mashup where sweet spring…
About the Archivist
This is a curated selection of letters that left a mark on the world, on someone’s life, or just in the margins of time.
Each is transcribed with care and respect for the medium that first carried it: the typewritten page.
My Pictures Of You 