Harder than I thought

This is harder than I thought. Or, maybe more precisely, I’m making this harder than I have to. I’m trying not to work on this. I work on other things. I finished one assignment—a social history of Houston in 750 words—almost impossible! I did the proofs on article for Houston History making it a much bigger job than necessary. I’m going to the Organization of American Historians annual meeting later this week. Monday, I’ll hop on another assignment from Houston History. I’ve done gardening at “the house without a yard.” (See my other blog  http://trillap.blogspot.com/ for more about that.)Do I sound busy? I should sound like I’m stalling since that is exactly what I’m doing.

            I have the letters sorted by year; I have 1933 by month; June by date. I read the first one. It is the only long handwritten one—and is it ever long! I transcribed it—the paper is too frail to stand handling. It’s almost 3000 words written by hand in one afternoon. I'll share some of the details.

            Now that’s something to look forward to.

            Next time.