Monthly Archives: October 2015
After my mother passed away in 2006, my sisters and I were cleaning out mom’s assisted living apartment. Two of us were given the job of taking care of the bedroom. I sat on the floor and began to clean out mom’s dresser drawers. In the bottom drawer, in the corner I found a zip lock bag filled with old brown paper. I didn’t know what I had so I opened the bag and found about 100 letters written by my…..
It wasn’t until the sun was setting that Thomas found the right moment to take a tablet of lined paper up to the small desk in the corner of the room he shared with his brothers. He had been thinking about what to say in his letter all day, but suddenly he felt timid and a bit foolish. What if she doesn’t write back? Maybe she was just playing a game with me. He decided to play it safe and…..
Please enjoy the following excerpt from “Love Letters from a Doughboy,” the scene below shares my grandparents’ first meeting. I was able to put together a fictionalized love story based on a collection of letters I found a few years ago, which the two had exchanged from the time they met to the time my grandfather enlisted in WWI and beyond. The letters date back to as early as 1916: Thomas went into the gift shop to buy some postcards…..
Welcome. My name is Margie Howd, author of Love Letters from a Doughboy : A World War I Love Story. I’m so happy to have you as a visitor to my blog about my new book. This project is very special to me, and I hope to share some of that excitement with you here. I’ll be using this blog to interact with you about Love Letters from a Doughboy : A World War I Love Story, expanding on some…..
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