Sylvia Peck

Happy early birthday for August 18th. That’s a travel day for me to Cambridge, so I might miss wishing you well. My first pink Tose if Sharon bloomed today. A week early, but in your honor.

i love that he became a horticulturalist.  He had a beautiful aesthetic sensibility, and would have been wonderful designing plantings as a landscape designer.

My condolences to his wife, Patty, and to the rest of his family and friends.  I am not 100 % positive, so please forgive me if I am wrong, but I think Mike taught me how to use the darkroom to develop tri-x, even though it was grainy.  He was extremely kind, and patient; sympathetic when I left a print drying too long in the roller, and it burned.  And I think he came up with a way for me to do a double exposure in the development process.  Or , he taught me how to under-expose and then rewind the film to create a double exposure.  I'm glad you had a chance to speak together recently, Bill.  The fishing day sounds wonderfully tender, as a memory.  What a gift --

Posted on: Jul 12, 2025 at 3:48 PM

Hi Shelley: i will donate. If your proposal doesn’t fly here. I will try to go directly to the go fund me page. How devastating. A terrible grief. I didn’t recognize the child’s Mom. But I remember this beautiful child’s face from the news coverage. Now I see she was a granddaughter of someone you know well. Please convey my condolences — whenever it might help. Even as another Woodbury girl.
My cousin, Sarah, lost her 6 year old in a drowning in 2002. (Not a flood) — Sarah keeps a candle lit, always, in her home, unless she is traveling — In case there is a heaven and her daughter, Isabeau Constance, needs to find her.

Hug,

Syl

Happy Birthday, Chrys!

Posted on: Jun 09, 2025 at 12:00 PM

Dearest and Svelte, Paula Kawson— elegant as ever, and kind, and a barrel of laughs, and the sweetest, most fun Grandma ever. Hmmmm why don’t I see pictures of your grandchildren….Hmmmm. We’ll forgive me if I got that wrong. Come visit me on the Outer Cape! Maybe we can make it happen this summer. Thanks for your patience when I disappeared over the loss of my Dad. I was just feeling as though the bottom dropped out. But I can feel my toes in the sand now. My garden is thrilled with blooming colors. For YOUR BIRTHDAY! Love, Syl

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www.sylviapeck.com

My website shows my published books and current writing projects. Hope you are well.

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Congratulations on the birth of your granddaughter in 2024. How joyous for you both. I am glad your father is still with you.

I lost my father April 7, 2023, so my birthday always has a tinge of loss. But all else is well, particularly with my writing. Take care, always’. Syl

Looking forward to Gladiator II next spring. I’ll be in NYC for a quick Thanksgiving visit, and In May 2025, Will and I will be meeting up in Louisville. I’ll still watch the Derby on the TV screen, and get all the instant replays; but I will see my step-grandchildren and meet my step-granddaughter,Tiffany, who will have turned two years old. All of them Harry and Maya’s children, all five!, now back in the states, and living year-round in Kentucky.

Posted on: Jul 10, 2024 at 8:20 AM

This photo from Woodbury graduation in 1970 is dedicated to my bangs which I will love forever, — I am beginning to grow them out again in July of 2024, at the whim of stylist fashions. I grew them out in1970, and I am growing them out again. May they tuck behind my ears by Halloween.

Posted on: Jul 03, 2024 at 3:33 PM

Happy Birthday, Chrys! Stay cool and frosty. Flagstaff is cooler in this heat than Las Vegas, so I hope you are in Flagstaff.

Maybe I’ll write more on the fourth, tomorrow.

Take care,

Sylvia

Posted on: Jun 09, 2024 at 6:11 PM

Happiest of birthdays, Paula Lawson (Leshane)!!!!!! You look elegant, as ever. Underneath is the most fun, giggly, wave jumping, reading to grandchildren, excellent printing and quipping soul on earth……..

Posted on: May 04, 2024 at 10:58 AM