Letters from the Homefront

My college years were not an easy time for me.  I have never dealt with change very well and that combined with homesickness and some depression issues made the experience not exactly worthy of a "Saved By the Bell" type spin-off series.  Every once in a while I revisit those years by reading the letters I got from my family while I was two hours away in the grand ole state of Indiana.  These are a couple of my absolute favorites.

My goddaughter and her twin brother were just starting preschool when I left for college. Now they just graduated from high school.  Holy heck I am old.  Also, I am sad to report that their penmanship never did get any better. Public schools fail another pair of sad sacks.

Looking at that one, you'd never guess that my sister Kerry would one day be an art major. She could write for Hallmark, though, with clever lines like "How is college treating you? SNOW is fine for me!" GENIUS!

I'm thankful that Jamie used her personalized stationary on this one. I would have definitely thought this really did come from some random dog.

Johnny's always been a man of few words. Also all that writing tuckered him out and he couldn't actually finish writing his name. That Y is always a time-killer.

Finally, here are some quotes from letters from my baby sister Kerry. She was in fifth grade when I left for school. These are too good not to share.

• I wish I had a horse to ride up anytime I want to you college.
• I was thinking that I send a ribbon and I sign it and I send it to you. You sign it and when we can keep doing that.
• I didn't mean that I hated you. I just got frustrated. I should have held my tongue and counted to 3 but I didn't. That's the past. The future matters. And in the future and present I will try my hardest to be Christian.

Kerry, I hope you're still working on that last issue!