I’ve had a busy seven months or so: my dad died, my husband and I bought our first house, then went up for tenure at the University of Tulsa, I spent a week in the hospital, then got sicker after I was released but was finally (after two years of serious mystery health problems) diagnosed with two autoimmune disorders, and my novel (The Extinction of Irena Rey) came out, which meant I got to travel (on a heavy dose of steroids). I went to New York, Boston, South Hadley, Tucson, Minneapolis, Chicago, Seattle, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Brisbane, and Sydney, and, having never been to Australia before, I fell head-over-heels in love with Sydney. My twins turned two, and my husband and I were awarded our tenure (hooray!).
I still have some book-related travel coming up—Edinburgh, back to New York, Austin, Miami, Mobile, Columbia (South Carolina)—and I am still crushed by the loss of my father. But I am getting some time now to get back to a beloved project I was calling Notes on Postcards (it might have a different title now). Yesterday, Boris and I laid out a little bit of my collection for a section of the book on why I’m so fascinated by postcards, and I liked the result so much I thought I’d go ahead and share it here.
More from that section coming soon! And in the meantime, if you’re in possession of a postcard that’s special to you, I’d love for you to write a guest post about it—ideally with a picture of the postcard (one or both sides). Email to jennifer-croft@utulsa.edu. I’d love to hear from you!
