Blogging for Postcards
To: Mandarin
Michelle Goodrich
1772 Merced Way
West Sacramento, CA 95601 USA
From: Kathyrn Petro Santa Clara California
Thank you Kathryn. Postcards anyone? We would love to see where you live, your city, or any postcard. We read about you here in Blogland and see your photographs in real time. But what do the postcards show? What does the postcard from where you live show? What landmark did they use to represent your town, your home.
Would you send a postcard? Or a short note. It can hang on the wall in front of the desk here at the House of Mandarin.
Postcards Thanks: Kathryn Petro from Santa Clara, California, Shirl from Michigan's Capitol, Susan from Sydney Australia, and Stu from Outer Space, Kim from a not-reality based Michigan, and a reality postcard from Kalamazoo Michigan.
More thanks... Diane from the nut house in Michigan.
More thanks today... norsehorses-turf sent an envelope. Let's see what's inside. A Montpelier Vermont card, and a promise to send another. More thanks to Rob, Fraser and the Gatewood staff at gatewoodJournal in Johnson City Tennessee. Cheers from Beerli fraises Adelaide, SA, Australia (cool stamp). And don't you know there's another one (or two) on vacation. JR and Mrs Noded sent cards from Edinburgh Castle and one from the Roman Baths. Double the pleasure.
Rob CrabAppleLane sent a taste of Louisiana, while Sarah of LifeinTheBigCity.blogsot.com sent cheers from Texas. Sorry about that Sarah!
More... This is fun. Some of you we know, some we don't know. It's interesting to see your cards. And it does give us a reason to go to the mailbox. Maybe there will be more tomorrow.
More thanks... Susan of EasyBakeCoven, did you have to pay extra to have the post card folded in half, run through the rinse cycle, and then put in the dryer? Anyway, it made here today. The lone card in the box. Thanks.
Postcard Update! Friday June 17th
A postcard from Peter (the other) in Santa Monica, California at Loose Poodle came in. And today the kind Madame Levy sent a postcard from France. The card from Peter C. Harris (sarchi, right?) is a special card made in 1966. Thank you to those who have sent more than one including the original art from Kim,
and newspapers, bookmarks, and other Vermont specials from
Norsehorses-Turf
Blogging For Postcards
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Happy Mother's Day Mom
I guess this is a Mother's Day post. My daughter said she went to Mandarin and couldn't find my "blog". This is for you Karyn. Sometimes I "blog" and sometimes it disappears. Ah, the power of the delete key.
Sisters Michelle and Michele
Michelle and Michele My sister Michele began searching for her biological mother using ALMA. It was purely for medical history for Michele, she was pregnant at the time and had no desire to meet her mother, my mother. But after a few phone calls they found they had so much in common. Both were English teachers and both were accidental teachers. Even though Michele was born in Florida where our mother lived they had both relocated to California. Mom taught English at the high school Michele attended here in California, about 2000 miles away from where she was adopted.
Sisters Michelle and Michele
Mom called me and asked if I was sitting down. I was. She said "I'm in Santa Cruz visiting someone you don't know". Then she blurted out "your sister Michele". All I could say is "What? You named us the same name!". Of course she didn't. Michele was named by her adoptive parents. Our names were one of many coincidences. Her dog was named Molly and mine was too. We wore our makeup the same, all of us, including Mom. We dressed a lot alike, we could have switched wardrobes and not noticed the difference.
Sisters Michelle and Michele
Michele's children suddenly had aunts, uncles, a grandmother, and lots of cousins. They had always wanted to have cousins. I suppose Michele got what she needed. When I arrived that first day at her home she and Mom had their arms around each other. They couldn't let go. Michele had finally found why she felt so out of place and that she wasn't different. She was just like our family, never like her adoptive family. Her mother never hugged. My mother, her mother, hugged everyone. I'm not sure how Mom felt. She was happy to see her baby she had named Dawn but it's something that she may have wanted to leave behind. That part was never clear.
It wasn't long after the reunion and a few visits that I had to call Michele to tell her that Mom had been killed. She got to know Willa for a short time and to meet all of the family at the funeral in Florida. Our grandmother was there and the resemblance between Michele and other family members was remarkable. For the most part the rest of us don't look like each other. Michele looked just like our grandmother and very much like Mom. Some say we look alike too. We don't see it, others do.
Sisters Michelle and Michele
Hug your Mother today. Call her. Pick a flower. Make her feel loved. We miss you Willa, Love Michelle and Michele.
