I’ve written many times about “the Snail Blog”(here, and here, and here)… Ellen’s response to blogging as a Luddite committed to keeping in touch…she has sent me a post card every day for 3000 days (that is 8.22 YEARS for non-math majors). 3000 (and 3001) arrived today: Imagine. All those cards, all those stamps (though […]
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The Snail Blog surges into 2017
I don’t think I’ve mentioned the Snail Blog lately, a postcard-a-day that arrives from our friend Ellen in Vermont…(card number 2401 arrived yesterday) This is such a delightful peek into a parallel universe, and Vermont is certainly that…a different life and like any good serial we have come to know the cast of characters…N.N., John […]
The Snail Blog/”Couples”
I haven’t written about the Snail Blog lately…my friend Ellen’s counter-move in response to this blog. She sends me a post card almost everyday with the small (and sometimes overwhelming) details of her life in Vermont. She has become a postcard collector, and sends the cards in series…one recent series, for instance, was “Bridges”. But […]
Snail Blog Milestone!
I like the notion of keeping in touch. Maybe that’s one reason I like to blog…(but only one… it’s really about images for me…). Back in 2009 my friend Ellen began writing me a postcard every day as a way to keep in touch (AND to use up post cards kicking around the drawers) and […]