Tag: postcards
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January 5, 2017
Here is a postcard with a picture of Henry that I used to send out to kids who wrote me letters. It’s been a year since Henry died. I think about him every day, miss him every day. Yesterday, on the way to the post office, I thought: oh, all those thousands of postcards of…
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October 23, 2012
I like old postcards, postcards sent from places I have never been, bearing messages from people I do not know. You can usually find a shoebox full of them at any antique store; and I can put myself into a happy trance reading the faded and mysterious words written on them: Have you seen Ralph?…
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March 8, 2011
In the mail: letters from a second grade class in Libertyville, Illinois that just finished reading The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane. The letters are wonderful: funny and smart and wise. Some of the kids also enclosed illustrated postcards that they wrote to Edward. The one pictured here is by Ronin. This morning (early) I…