Wednesday, August 17, 2011

letter to Arlene

Dear Arlene,

I am sorry you died July 3, 2011.  I want to thank you for interceding on my behalf and getting my stuffed animal back from our mother.  I want to also thank you for making me sit at the little desk, which I now have, and do my homework.  I still do my homework, yesterday researching programs outside of English that teach writing and I found an article from the writing program director at Cornell, Katherine Gottschalk, that cited the book I published in 2001.  To think it all began at that little mahogany desk about 60 years ago.  You were the teacher and I was the student.  And I went on to become a college professor and you a loving caregiver in a nursing home.  Soon each of three shifts will be holding a pizza party in your honor.

Love
Karen

No comments:

Post a Comment