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Sandra at Mineral de Pozos, Guanajuato, Mexico © Copyright 2011 Alan Goldfarb |
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Archive of Sandra's front-page letters
| current letter | Dear Former Students of Katie Burchert, Northeast Middle School, Reading, Pennsylvania... |
| April 18, 2012 | Mil arigatos to my lovely friends in Japan.... |
| January 23, 2012 | The new year began with the death of Dr. Rose, my veterinarian for the last 18 years... |
| October 3, 2011 | October has arrived with the Monarch butterflies, those migrants who cross two borders without papers... |
| July 22, 2011 | We are gathering our energy for our upcoming Macondo gathering the week of July 24-29, 2011... |
| July 3, 2011 | I was out walking my dogs on the river this morning when my neighbor called out from his backyard behind a cloud of smoke where he was getting the barbeque started. "You're just who I was looking for," Dave the Cowboy said... |
| May 15, 2011 | I'm just back from a visit to Cortez, Colorado. The Cortez Public Library's Poetry Corner was my host... |
| May 9, 2011 | I walk my dogs daily along the river. I'd been complaining about progress — the river renovation, I mean... |
| May 1, 2011 | I live a cloistered life, like a nun behind a screen, when I am home. But when I roam I meet you eye to eye... |
| April 26, 2011 | I read Borges fabulous book Seven Nights for the seven-thousand time, I think, and it seems to me a book I can never finish, because, as he says, a book changes each time we read it, because we change and are never the same person we were yesterday — "Each reading of a book, each rereading, each memory of that reading, reinvents the text." |
| April 14, 2011 | What to do with this grief today? I don't know what good is sadness unless we stand still with it, hold it under the tongue, savor it, and say to ourselves, "Here I am, if I had any doubt at all, here I am." |
| May 6, 2010 | I had thought I would be able to update you on my recent stint as Grand Marshall of the Poteet Strawberry Festival, or the panel Mocondo gave at the Associated Writing Program Conference in Denver, or my visit to Lubbock thanks to the students of Unidos Por Un Mismo Idioma. Instead, I have to report about the great sadness of losing my friend the Poet Ai... |
| Jan. 17, 2010 | What a fabulous 55th birthday party I had! The BEST party EVER! Like being shot out of a cannon... |
| December 10, 2009 | Last night was an unforgettable night for me at the Twig Bookstore at their new location at the Pearl Brewery, but what made the evening so memorable was the presence of thirty young women writers from Mark Twain Middle School who had been bused in just for the occasion... |
| October 8, 2009 | I just came back from Chicago where I installed a Day of the Dead altar for my mother at the National Museum of Mexican Art... |
| June 18, 2009 | I am finally back from my recent book tour for the 25th Anniversary edition of The House on Mango Street. |
| January 15, 2009 | It's 2009. How did it happen that the first decade is almost over without my realizing it even began?... Thank you for all your patience during 2008 when I was dealing with my mother's death... |
| long ago | I know most of you would like to know a little about how I write and what inspired me to write the books you have read... |