I’ve written quite a bit about my Kalamazoo grandmother, (Lucille) Edna Mulder Zuidweg. I’ve posted her high school graduation information, about her time at Western Normal School (now Western Michigan University), about her marriage to my grandfather, Adrian Zuidweg.
In my big organization-and-shred project I found something that I love. Grandma wrote me a letter when I was a grad student. She and I had had a phone conversation about how she wanted me to never give up creative writing because she had done so and regretted it. Grandma and I had a love of writing in common.
So she found a newspaper clipping and sent it to me in this letter. Note that we have “cleaning out the desk” in common, too haha.
I sure did love her stories. And Grandpa’s stories, too. I am positive that their storytelling is what inspired me to write poetry and stories.
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Yes, I said FREE!!!! Deadline Sunday, June 9, 2019
I have exciting news for anybody with old photos like mine that you would like to see colorized. To celebrate her blog’s second anniversary, Val at Colouring the Past is offering a FREE photo colorization with a very minimal “catch” (I can’t even really call it a catch). Go check out her post where she tells about it.
Click here.
Be sure to get over there right now so that you don’t miss the deadline!
You might have seen some of the gorgeous work she’s done for me. Here’s a sample:
The Family Kalamazoo 