Letters from Marilyn - Update 31

Happy Sunday, dear readers! Since my last entry, I have been busy getting set up to continue Letters from Marilyn. I am working on new chapters, but they are not quite ready yet, so I have a different kind of update today: a letter that was written to Marilyn during the Korean War.

In 2016, I received a photocopy of a letter that had been written to Marilyn from Corporal Robert A. Sebesta. At the time, I was unsure how to categorize this letter. It was not something Marilyn had written to her family. For now, I have stored it with 'other letters.'

If you recall, Marilyn had been writing letters to her cousin Arden during the Korean War. I presume Arden was reading portions of her letters to his fellow soldiers, because that is how this letter likely originated. The letter itself is dated December 11, 1951, with the envelope postmarked December 15, 1951 from the Army Air Force Postal Service. It is marked free air mail.

Letters from Marilyn - Update 30

It has been six years, dear readers, and it is a beautiful new day for an entry.

I am back with a life update regarding the past six years, as well as a long overdue update on Letters from Marilyn. I will do my best to keep the life update brief so that we can focus on the future of Letters from Marilyn. I hope this post explains - but not excuses - my absence.

Where I Was

Since September of 2019, I spent the remainder of that year focused on a few other projects I had set aside, with the full intention to return to Letters from Marilyn in January 2020.

2020, as we know, brought a global pandemic. The mental load of this time period was challenging as an educator. In addition, I was having a persistent arthritis flare. Prior to 2020, my last flare was in 2011, and I had forgotten how physically difficult it could be.