Category Archives: letters

Lamenting the loss of letters

Posted on June 26, 2023 by moonbridgebooks

Recently I found a box of letters my mother had saved – dating back to the 1970s. There were letters from Japan I had to use Google Translate to understand and letters from my American grandmother and spunky great-aunt Chris. … Continue reading →

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Ghostwriting Family Stories – writing for dad

Posted on July 19, 2020 by moonbridgebooks

Whew! I finished writing my dad’s stories of childhood and early adult years the best I could with some writings from him and letters he wrote to his family from his army service in the US and in Japan, late … Continue reading →

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Love and War in a British Indian Army WWII Memoir

Posted on June 21, 2020 by moonbridgebooks

Uma Eachempati ’s childhood memories of life in South India sound delightful, except this was during WWII and her father, who was a doctor and a major in the British Indian Army, was captured and held prisoner by the Japanese … Continue reading →

Posted in book talk, capturing memories, heritage, history, letters, lifewriting, multicultural, overcoming, publishing, war stories, WWII | 2 Comments