Category Archives: While I Was Away at Camp

My mom sent these letters to me while I was away at camp.

12Aug/13

Sasha Speaks Up!

cat reading newspaper (with glasses drawn on)Sasha the Rebel Cat, Letter #2

Dear Eli,

So remember how I told you that Sasha was reading the newspaper? So naturally, I asked her what she was doing. Now, Sasha is normally a very skittish cat.  Usually when I catch Sasha doing something she’s not supposed to be doing, or that she even thinks she’s not supposed to be doing, she scampers away and hides under the bed.

Not this time.

Sasha took off her glasses (did I mention she was wearing glasses?) and she said, “I’m trying to keep up on world politics. Especially any global conferences on the well-being of domestic cats.”

I was stunned. Continue reading

First Summer: Sasha the Rebel Cat

cat-newspaper cSasha the Rebel Cat was the first camp story I wrote for my son, Eli. I didn’t want to bore him with the trivialities of the everyday, so I applied a little imagination to my letters. I hope you enjoy them, and I appreciate your comments.

I’ll be posting a new letter from this story every Tuesday and Thursday.

Dear Eli,

I hope you are enjoying camp, and making friends!  Things here are pretty much the same as when you left.  Your dad and I are working, your brother is enjoying day camp, and not much is new.

Except for Sasha, your cat.

They say that cats have nine lives? Continue reading

While I was Away at Camp

When I was a girl away at camp, my father would write letters to me. In his letters, my father would not talk about is work, or what he and my mother did while I was away, or about what he ate for breakfast. My father’s letters were… unusual.

He would write to me about my “twin sister,” and her misbehavior at home while I was away.

11Jun/11

Letter 2: There’s a Strange Sound Coming from the Basement

Dear Eli,

Remember I told you that I couldn’t find my socks? I looked in Dad’s drawer, and in Nate’s drawer, and they didn’t have any socks either. Then, I checked all of the laundry baskets, and there were no socks there, either. I looked in the washing machine and the dryer, and still no socks. Something very strange is going on. Where could all those socks be? Are you sure that you didn’t take them? Continue reading

Letter 1: I Can’t Seem to Find Any Socks

4201955402_ec94c209a6_zDear Eli,

I can’t seem to find any socks in my drawer. I’m really not sure what happened to them. Did you sneak some of my socks to camp with you? Hmmmmm. Well, I’m going to go see if I can hunt down a few pairs. It seems awfully strange for them to just disappear. Maybe they are in Dad’s drawer? Or maybe Nate’s? I mean, they can’t just get up and walk out of my drawer by themselves. Everyone knows that!

Love,

Mom