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Dear Folks: December 20, 1986
Dear Folks,
It’s Saturday morning and Foundation Farm is humming. John is downstairs vacuuming his rooms (the living and dining rooms are his to keep clean). Kate is in the kitchen making bread (Suzanne and I clean the kitchen; we’ll do it whent he breadmaking is done). Suzanne has just gone out to pick up the mail at the post office [...]
Dear Folks: November 23, 1986
Dear Folks,
It’s late on a Sunday night and I’m too tired to be writing this. I just got back from a trip to Washington, interesting but draining. I came home to find only Dennis here, with a nice pot of lentil soup and a cabbage salad ready for me and the woodstoves all fired up and the chores all done. [...]
Dear Folks: October 18, 1986
Dear Folks,
It’s Saturday night, a nearly-full moon shining in my bedroom window as I type this. Dennis has just left for a trip with the craziest itinerary I ever heard — Ottawa, Seville (yes, the one in Spain), New York, Mexico City, Los Angeles and then home. All in two weeks. Suzanne is working in Boston this weekend. We’re hoping [...]
