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 notable things happened today? It is 7:30 in the morning and I had a parade in the house. I’m watching our daughters dog. When I get up in the morning, the parade starts with two dogs and two cats, marching down the steps and towards their morning visits to the backyard and eventually breakfast.…
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.