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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If you had to get a tattoo right now, what would it be and why? Yesterday was a birthday party for our three year-old granddaughter and I got a tattoo. It’s a puppy in a bear suit. It a three year-old asks you to get a tattoo on her birthday, it’s hard to refuse.
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.