Here is an email I sent to my friend’s father-in-law, who works in the elder care industry and who had been offering me some advice. From: Gagne, David To: [redacted] Subject: Re: Questions for Monday Sent: March 2, 2012 3:41 AM ET Hello, [redacted], Thank you so, so much. I cannot possibly describe to […]
About a year after being laid off from her job at Americorps, mom applied for a position at Enterprise, the car rental company. I remember that they called her for an interview, and when I talked to her about it she felt like it went well. But she didn’t get the job and was very […]
January 16, 2009 Big Brothers Big Sisters of Mid-Florida 1155 NW 13th Street Gainesville, Florida 32601 To Whom It May Concern: I would like to know if you have any openings at Big Brothers Big Sisters. I would be willing to work on a volunteer basis to begin with. Hopefully, I will be able […]
September 2, 2007 Dear Everett, Before it gets to late to do so, I would like to propose some changes in our Member configuration for this year. We have some options, I hope, still available to us. For example, I would like to offer two full-time slots back to Volunteer Florida. (It has been […]
I found a bunch of files on mom’s old Dell hard drive in the middle of March of 2013. One was a letter written to two of her friends (from Americorps, I assume) regarding caring for her pets while she was dealing with the declining health of her own mother. She saved it at 9:41 […]
2/13/07 Strange things going on at work. Chandra told me some, but Mary and Kim were reticent. It sounded as if Donna got demoted. How cruel! If it’s true, they should have at least moved her to another department. I’ve been told virtually nothing. All the others were called down to talk to Dianna […]
Mom was very, very proud of the work she did for Americorps. She worked there from approximately 2002 until 2008 and I know she was thrilled to be doing something that reminded her of Camelot. Here’s a letter she wrote to prospective volunteers. On her old computer hard drive I found this file titled volunteer […]
A conference postcard
A thank you letter mom wrote to my partner