Dearest Rachel – I didn’t get anywhere near the amount of sleep that I should have last night, honey. After cashing in a little after ten, I thought I’d gotten myself a decent night’s rest, only to wake up a little after midnight, needing to use the bathroom. I managed to drift off yet again……
Dearest Rachel – Only a day into this tour (barely half that, in fact!), and I’m realizing that there’s another difference about this one as opposed to most of our previous travels that may make keeping you up to speed that much more difficult. While we’ve done plenty of trips where we’re running at a…
In the blanks below write the two most significant statements in today’s reading assignment. Be prepared to discuss why the statements you chose were significant to you.“If people did not remain strangers to themselves, they would not maintain all their lives in the same paralyzed state. But they give flattering names to their own natural…
Dearest Rachel – I’ve talked before about how, from coast to coast, American cities pride themselves on never sleeping. It’s been celebrated in song from “New York, New York” to the San Francisco that was supposedly “built… on rock and roll.” Whether they actually stay awake, going full crank for 24/7/365 is a matter of…
Dearest Rachel – We’ve done a lot of traveling in our lives, both while you were around and since you had to go. Most of those trips were cruises, where as we put it, you unpack once and let your hotel do the traveling for you. Other times, it’s been with large groups (although I…
Dearest Rachel – When we go walking in the woods every week, Lars will almost always ask me about three things in my life, only one of which has much change from week to week. That fluctuating one is my weight, although it’s less so at the moment, since I’ve given up most of what…
Dearest Rachel – There were days, back when you were still here, when we would exert ourselves to the point of overdoing it, and you in particular would pay for it later on. Raking leaves comes to mind in particular, even at this opposite point on the calendar, in part because the front lawn has…
Dearest Rachel – The other day, I was showing Daniel one of the channels I’ve been watching while he’s been hanging out with Logan in the family room. It’s one of those film analysis essay sites, but rather than addressing the literary merits of the work, it discusses a film’s effect on the collective psyche…
Dearest Rachel – I’ve been busy every so often with tying up the odd loose end here and there – clearing my schedule and the like – in preparation for our flight to Tokyo at the end of the week. For all that I might wish that I could be perfectly nonchalant about such travels,…
Dearest Rachel – You would think that, given the unusual nature of yesterday’s events, I would have a lot to tell you about them. However, upon waking up this morning, I somehow found myself with a head full of cobwebs, and little else; so much so that, despite having retired to bed before ten o’clock…
Letters to Rachel 