THE BIG RELEASE & REWARD It’s time for another blog posting. It’s been quite a while, but I do have plenty of excuses – like: My dog ate my notes, amnesia, supply chain issues, or the never-fail, one-word, sure-sell excuse…..Covid. Fortunately, none of these are true – except the dog part, that really did happen. […]
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CURSING THE CURSIVE A LOST ART Cursive handwriting used to be the standard when writing a letter to someone. However, now in the 21st century, handwriting a letter to someone is the exception, rather than the rule. In 2010, the U.S. government officially removed cursive from the required Common Core Standards for K-12 education. And
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YOU’VE GOT MAIL So, I’d rescued the 300+ letters from my mother’s garage and now was the steward of my Uncle Glenn’s memory. What now? I had no idea what I was going to do with them, long term. The idea of spending several years preserving, transcribing and publishing them was definitely not the plan.
GARAGE TREASURES In 2016 while rummaging thru my mother’s garage for old family pictures and records in efforts to build a solid family tree, my concentration was focused on the direct family members that had lived full lives, and left documentation behind making the puzzle pieces easy to assemble. My Uncle Glenn didn’t fit this
WHO DO I THINK I AM Who do I think I am – writing a blog? Precisely what I thought. Who gives a damn what I think. All I did was discover some old letters, Repair and restore them, scan ALL OF THEM, Transcribe ALL OF THEM, and put them in a book series. Well,
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Welcome to WordPress. This is your first post. Edit or delete it, then start writing! WHO DO I THINK I AM Who do I think I am – writing a blog? Precisely what I thought. Who gives a damn what I think. All I did was discover some old letters, Repair and restore them, scan