The Life Literary in Photos
-
Recent Posts
- It’s Lent: Fast! Pray! Write!
- A Calendar Journal, A Sentence a Day
- Writing Log – 11/17/2022
- Writing Log – 10/25/2022
- Writing Log – 10/13/22
- Planting a Tree with a Three-Year-Old
- Suicide Bomb
- First Person Pronouns in Christian Worship: A Key to Denominational Affiliation and Cultural Identity?
- Writing Log – 10/3/2022
Categories
- Among the Liberators
- Antipodean Adventures
- Artist's Notes
- Australia Sojourn
- Autumn
- Blog Guidance
- Bombay Letters
- Book
- Childhood
- Community
- Creativity
- Daily Sentence
- Devotion
- Duck Series
- From The Bride's Father's Notebook
- Garden: A Love Story
- Gardening
- Holidays
- Humor
- Jerusalem Letters
- Letters
- Life
- Literary Events
- Living Literarily
- Mental Health
- Music
- NaNoWriMo
- Original Poems
- Photo Captions
- Poem Memorizing Tips and Articles
- Poems Memorized
- Politics
- Postcards
- Reading
- Retirement
- Spirituality
- The Life and Times of Union Center
- The Life Literary
- The Rider Chronicles
- Time
- Travels
- Uncategorized
- Whitecaps on the Potomac
- Word Collections
- Word Play
- Work
- Writing
- Writing Log
Tag Archives: Letters
In An Israeli Family’s Home
September 2004 Hello from Jerusalem, My goal? Your kitchen! While living overseas I think this should be my cross-cultural pick-up line: Hey baby, I wanna get in your kitchen. Some of my most interesting experiences have been in homes of … Continue reading
Posted in Jerusalem Letters
Tagged Description, eggplant, Jerusalem, Letters, narratives
Leave a comment
Bombay Letters 2, March 1998
Date: March 12, 1998 Subject: A Bit About Food Hello from India! So glad to get a few messages from you via email. My Hotmail address is still current and active but I do not have regular or easy access … Continue reading
Bombay Letters 1, March 1998
Date: Monday, March 2, 1998 Subject: Finally a Letter! Dear Family, First, we are here, happy, and safe. Second, our home number is 011‑91‑22‑386‑4444. You can reach us at it for about two weeks or so until we … Continue reading
Bombay Letter Introduction
My work took me and my family, my wife and three children, to Bombay, India where we lived for two years, 1998 and 1999. This was my first assignment with my new employer and I was flush with the excitement … Continue reading
Response to a NYT Editorial about Robert Burns (first version)
NYT Robert Burns Editorial I will agree it’s fun to give haggis a little kick in the hurdies* from time to time. A sausage made from chopped and cooked sheep’s lung, kidney and heart (with onions, salt, pepper, suet and … Continue reading
Redemption: Start in the Corner
My daughter, a married college sophomore, wrote an email a while back. She felt overwhelmed with all the work she had to do, and discouraged that she wasn’t doing it as well as she could or should. She was even … Continue reading
The Five Dollar Christmas Deal
(Our Christmas 2007 letter) December 2007 The Five Dollar Christmas Deal It’s 6 a.m. on a cold, December Saturday morning and I’m fixing coffee and oatmeal. I still find it hard to believe my wife is in Bali, Indonesia. I … Continue reading
Posted in Holidays, Whitecaps on the Potomac
Tagged Alexandria, Christmas, Description, Letters, Market, Writing
Leave a comment
Good Ole Fashioned Linear Thinking
(If possible, I edit and re-read every bit of communication, every email and letter I send. Even trivial or routine emails, to my my wife, my children, my parents, a friend, I go over, trying to tighten the language, fix … Continue reading