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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How do you balance work and home life? Work to live and not live to work. I recently retired, so this equation doesn’t exactly fit. During my career, this Credo always was my guiding light. It probably was the reason. I usually got reviews of meet expectations instead of exceeds expectations. Despite this, I still…
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.