#52weeks52letters

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Child art: always my fall back.

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I sent these packages of Buddy Apples to some teacher friends this week.

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Thank you cards by 3 year olds count, especially when I'm doing the thank you note enforcement!

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52Weeks52Letters and Book Update

This summer I haven't kept up with documenting my 52 letters--I may have lost the will to document things when I'm not on semester time. (Read: summer vacation has seeped into my soul and is eating my productivity alive.)

I have written letters this summer, though not one a week. I made a care package for a family member who had surgery, Fathers Day cards for all the fathers in my fam, assorted birthday cards for children, and thank you/apology cards for my daughter's swim teachers, who deeply deserved them. I hope to get back into the documentation thing soon, especially because my mom made me a bunch of beautiful cards I'd like to post photos of.

I'm also planning to update Tumblr more often to talk about my book, which is finally coming out this fall/winter! Unfortunately, the issues the book discusses--contraceptive access, women's whole health, race/racism and reproduction, and conflicts between censorship and free expression--are as relevant now as they were during the time period the book covers--the 1910s to 1930s--so I'll try to illuminate some of those connections.

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This week's letters (last week was a wash, the first week I've actually missed):

Congratulations card for a friend with an awesome job in Ireland

Care package for a relative going in for surgery next week

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And also a birthday card to a college roommate

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Sent a picture like this one out with this week's Easter cards.

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I've been keeping up with 52 letters! Last week's was a birthday poem for a grad school friend, and the week before's was a set of kid pictures for my grandmother.