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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Who do you spend the most time with? I’m not one who likes to drive. I’ve been making a lot of trips up and down I5 between Vancouver and Everett. When you spend that much time in a car, you spend a lot of time inside your own head. That is spending time with yourself.…
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.