Anita's Love » Letters

Selfless acts

Greg — Sat, 23 Apr 2011 12:00:37 +0000

In an email to her mom…Anita wrote:

4/23/04

Ben did the most amazing thing this morning … he was awake for about 10 or 15 minutes before Julia. When Julia woke up she yelled out so we would know she was awake. Ben walked into the bedroom, took her hand to help her up, and they held [...]

Ghosts of Christmases Past

Greg — Thu, 16 Dec 2010 18:37:10 +0000

Christmas 2004

December is the most stressful month of the year for me. It’s been this way since the older kids started school full time, maybe even a bit before that. My list of things to do is not unlike many people: putting up decorations, planning and attending school parties, baking and candy making, shopping for [...]

Happy Birthday

Greg — Tue, 18 May 2010 10:00:27 +0000

You and I are connected in a way that goes beyond romance, beyond friendship, beyond what we’ve ever had before. It has defied time, distance, and changes in ourselves and in our lives. And it has defied every explanation except one: purely and simply, we’re soul mates. I can’t explain it. I just feel it. It’s there in the way my spirit subtly lifts whenever we talk, how [...]

Happy Mother’s Day

Greg — Wed, 12 May 2010 01:58:39 +0000

My Wife

Days like this remind me how much I LOVE you.

I know what they say - That things sort of even out when you’re married - that you’re not supposed to feel so overwhelmingly “in love” anymore. We’ve been together for a while now, and I know things aren’t always perfect.

But I want you to know that there are times when it hits me and I’m just [...]

Love letter #3

Greg — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 16:39:02 +0000

June 2, 1993 9:57 pm

Hi! I wish you’d call. I just finished reading every piece of mail and/or note you gave me. There’s 8 total including B-day & valentines cards, a napkin note on my car at Amigos, two notes left on my bed, a paper plate and last but not least, you most recent [...]

Love Letter #2

Greg — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 11:00:15 +0000

This is a card and letter Anita wrote me as she was leaving Lincoln, then mailed from Omaha and I received it several days later when she was already in New York. The envelope was postmarked June 1, 1993.

The card read:

Will Love Last? One of the most valuable lessons we can learn from life is this: That try [...]

Love Letter #1

Greg — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 20:24:43 +0000

Anita graduated college in May 1993 and then moved to Philadephia for a post-grad program. I still had two years of college before I graduated, so we knew that at that point, we’d be done. We had enjoyed our time together (5 1/2 months) but were both sad for it to end. She took her [...]