September 2010
15 posts
Failure to Launch
I guess one of the hardest things about challenges is when you break your routine and have to come up with another way of accomplishing the same thing. I’m pretty sure we maintained the challenge while in Vegas, but I’m wondering if all our letters got sent.
I still have a postcard or two, so I think I’ll send those in addition…just to be safe.
Estrangement
So I didn’t really research the etymology of the word “Estrangement,” but if you ask me the word “strange” is pretty clear. I agree with you about the “being proud,” of your mom. I mean, I know it is human nature to think we are in the right and that others are naturally the “wrong” ones, but the fact that she hasn’t chosen to shun you...
oh lisa frank! take a seal, give it huge eyes and some purple embossing, and entrance girls everywhere. haven’t thought about that wonderful junk in a long time!
yeah, i’ve been using a mixture of cards and paper we having hanging about in random desk drawers. i burned through a stockpile of blank cards pretty quickly. one of dave’s co-workers has an adult autistic brother who...
The Price of a Letter
This month our challenge is to write letters home to our grandparents. Meagan and I encourage all of you to do the same if you can. I started by writing my father’s mother, and then moved on to including my mom’s parents. Hum, I wonder if I should learn a new language and start writing to my step-father’s parents…
Anyway, it is day 10 of this challenge and I have...
grab your hankies →
ok, so this is about romantic love instead of familial love. but still, you gotta give it a watch.
Not Jewish
Dear Grandma and Grandpa,
I am writing a blog (it’s sorta like an online journal) with my friend Meagan -> www.itsjustamonth.tumblr.com. The theory is that you can do anything for one month.
This month’s “challenge,” we decided, is to write a note home to our grandparents every day. I started with Gma Broeker as I thought a daily note would brighten her spirits,...
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The Joys of Getting Old
So I wrote my father an email to see if Grandma has been getting my letters. I included a note about x-mas and bringing the new BF to meet the family. He had this to say in response:
Heather,
Grandma did not get your call on her birthday. Something is wrong with our phone. But she did get the letter; it made her day.
Do you think I will like this new guy? I go in for a double hernia surgery...
confessions
heather, it’s funny you mention that, because i just ‘fessed up in my letter today. i mean, they have to know something’s up when their mailbox is flooded. no communication for a year and a half and then all of a sudden i’m penning notes every day? they’re going to think i’m on drugs. well, they probably already think that. but you know what i mean.
put it...
Filling Them In on the Secret...?
Was wondering if you’re going to tell your G’rents about the challenge. I just wrote my third note to gma and I was thinking - what’s going to go through her head after a month of consistent notes and then nothing. I think I’m going to have to let her know. Now, that being said, maybe I’ll keep it up as much as possible afterwards. That’s sorta the point...
Grandmommy, Paw and Gma
It’s cool that we have different names for our g’rents. Yours - Grandmommy and Paw? I have Grandma and Poppi - more specifically, Little Grandma and Poppi (Hecklau) and Big Grandma and Poppi (Broeker). Grandpa Broeker passed away in 2007.
Is that the first letter you wrote Grandmommy and Paw? It’s perfect, in my opinion.
Mine was to Big Grandma. It went something like this...
september first
grandmommy and paw,
i know that we haven’t talked in a while and that we have many differences. yet, this doesn’t mean that i don’t love you, because i do. i keep thinking, “what would dad tell me to do in this situation?” i think his answer would be—- “reach out.” so that’s what i’ll do.
love,
meagan
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“It is not flesh and blood but the heart which makes us family. ~Johann Schiller...”
– Meg, well, I’m proud of you. It would be easy to give up on this next challenge considering your specific circumstances, but I think that the month you are about to embark on will be many things - a learning experience, a healing experience…perhaps a changing experience. I commend you...