This is so sweet. While I was looking through my mom’s “sent items” in her Yahoo! mail account, I found an email she sent to Pat Dooley, the long-time sportswriter for the Gainesville Sun. The subject line is “Florida/FSU Editorial Cartoon”: Dear Mr. Dooley, A friend of mine just told me about the wonderful cartoon […]
I found this note that my mom wrote to herself. It’s one of the rare instances in which she dated something she wrote. It reads: My life is going to change this week. I talk about positive, realistic, rational affirmation having a physiological response. The only time I lost a significant amount of weight and […]
I found a file on mom’s old computer hard drive named Wal-Mart Benches Letter.doc and dated November 8th, 2003. It looks like mom helped her mother write a letter to the manager of the Wal-Mart near the assisted living facility where Nana was living at the time. Nana was such an activist! I wonder if […]
It’s been forever since I wrote last. Lots of things have stayed the same, some have changed. I didn’t have the colonoscopy in November. It was much later than that and it was okay. Now I’m facing a D&C, ugh, because my uterine wall has thickened. She doesn’t think she’ll find anything, but she wants […]
July 9, 2003 Ms. Marnie Feasel Alesys Corporation Progress Center Gainesville, Florida Dear Marnie, Thank you for contacting me regarding the Editor/Production Team Leader position you have available at this time. I am very interested in talking with you about this opportunity and will be happy to discuss your needs and my qualifications some […]
7/4/03 David, This was actually in the bag with your Gator stuff. I almost threw it away and then I realized it was a postcard. Anyway, I thought you might like it. Hope you liked the silly Gator stuff … The neighbors are setting off lots of fireworks. That used to drive Reebok crazy! Anyway […]
An email mom wrote to her longtime friend and confidant, Sister Carol Mary Morrison: From: Gagne, Kathleen To: Sister Carol Mary Morrison Subject: Hello Again Sent: June 19, 2003 1:52 PM Hi, Carol, Maybe we should be email pals! All is well except that Jen is moving to Chicago in a week and David […]
In which mom sends a card before my 30th birthday
Happy Easter
Here’s a letter mom wrote in early 2003 to the billing department of Horizon Healthcare Center, one of the assisted living facilities where my grandmother lived. I don’t know if she actually printed this and mailed it to them, although I assume she did.