penfriends | Anita Mathias: Dreaming Beneath the Spires https://anitamathias.com Anita Mathias's Blog on Faith and Art Tue, 24 Nov 2015 17:54:20 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 https://anitamathias.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/cropped-Anita_lgr_hi_res_square_512-32x32.jpg penfriends | Anita Mathias: Dreaming Beneath the Spires https://anitamathias.com 32 32 Blogging and Penfriends https://anitamathias.com/2013/04/14/blogging-and-penfriends/ https://anitamathias.com/2013/04/14/blogging-and-penfriends/#comments Sun, 14 Apr 2013 21:45:57 +0000 http://anitamathias.com/blog/?p=42599   When I was growing up in India, letters with a foreign stamp were exciting, a window into exotic worlds. And every week, a thick envelope from Canada arrived, from my mother’s penfriend, Barbara Redlich, to whom she had written for decades, but never met. Barbara was Austrian, and in a letter I’ve kept, wrote, […]

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