Apparently on March 19th of 2002, I emailed my mom a link to an article about how the Earth had almost been hit by a massive asteroid. I’m sure at the time I sent it I was laughing because she and I used to joke about a horrible sci-fi made-for-TV movie we saw in the […]
I have owned this domain name for a long, long time. For many years there was nothing here at all; I always planned on one day making a website to display some of mom’s artwork and / or writing. (She wrote a ton of fiction.) I configured an email address for her so she’d have […]
Late one night, about eight years before the birth of my son, my mom forwarded me a silly email that I couldn’t have possibly understood at the time. It’s one of dozens of things she forwarded to me over the years, and I have no idea if I ever replied. I get it now, mom. […]
Over a decade ago, shortly after moving to Los Angeles, I was a contestant on the game show The Weakest Link and somehow managed to win. I sent mom this email when I learned when the episode was going to air: From: Gagne, David To: Gagne, Kathleen Subject: The Weakest Link – dvg Sent: […]
Towards the end of December in 2001, I emailed my mom a story about one of the gargoyles at the National Cathedral in Washington. (The gargoyle looks just like Darth Vader.) She replied to me with this message: You know, I was there with Nana when they were still working on it. It was in […]
I sent an email to a few dozen people in mid-December of 2001. It was one of those silly chain-letter-type messages that asks a bunch of questions that you’re supposed to answer and then forward to your friends so they can learn more about you. They were pretty common a decade ago, though I hardly […]
I got this email from mom on a late Saturday afternoon: David, I spent about an hour creating a wish list on amazon. I can’t access it, but it’s there. Let me know if you have a problem getting to it. I used Kathleen A. Gagne. There is another one there for a Kathleen Gagne […]
Early in November of 2001, I emailed mom a link to an article at ESPN.com about the Gators. I wrote, “Check it out! ESPN is currently predicting a Miami / Florida match-up in the Rose Bowl!!!” She replied on November 14, 2001, at 12:31pm: Hi, Love, Tres cool!!!!!! Florida is simply looking like the […]
My mom sent me this email on October 24, 2001: It’s funny – i just looked at the red sox jinx thing. 1 I love you with affection unspeakable as well. 2 You and [name redacted] are joy to me….almost unbearably so. I guess you read that as desparation, but it’s not – it is […]
In early October I emailed my mom a note from a MovableType mailing list that mentioned a hack I had written. It was pretty silly, just a short mention of a lame hack I wrote for a blogging platform. Here is her reply: Hi, hon, That is extremely, very, incredibly cool!!! I don’t think I […]