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Helping Hand for a Heavy Heart
Dear Friends and Family, I write to you with a heavy heart and to ask for your helping hand. In most of my letters, I have written about the beloved…
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Leslie Poynor
From the COVID Sickbed
Dear Friends and Family, I am writing to you from the COVID sickbed or rather, more precisely, the Omicron BA.5 sickbed. I am vaccinated and double…
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Leslie Poynor
Juneteenth: Joy in the Midst of Trauma
Dear Friends and Family, Today is Juneteenth—a celebration of the day when those who had been enslaved learned, two and a half years after the fact…
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Leslie Poynor
Before January 6th
Dear Friends and Family, Today is the day we will learn details about the first well-organized, well-armed, well-financed and executed attempt to…
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Leslie Poynor
Hula Hoop Happy Hour - Two Years Later
Dear Friends and Family, Two years ago this Wednesday, six Bay Area counties issued shelter-in-place orders and so began the COVID-19 Lockdown. Three…
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Leslie Poynor
Hope is Our Requirement
Dear Friends and Family, Will this pandemic never end? Today is my birthday and every year (except last year) we’ve had Texas Sheet Cake and Eric’s…
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Leslie Poynor
Something To Think About
Dear Friends and Family, I’ve noticed a pattern in my letters to you—I disappear sometime in the fall (August or September) and return in December. I…
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Leslie Poynor
Letters from Leslie
Letters from Leslie
Writing to make sense of the world and my place in it—from a social distance.

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