For five summers — 1967 through 1971 — i attended the National Music Camp at Interlochen, Michigan. Their alum outreach sends me fund-raising letters from time to time. In May of 2015, their heart-warming (tear-jerker?) tale evoked the the first reply. In October (not quite a month before Diana suffered her minor stroke), a second […]
The following was an e-mail sent to Xerox Business Services people and a few retirees in late February 2016 — a week or two after Diana’s death. From 1997 to 2008 Jack would e-mail retorts to me every time one of my published letters to editors or other articles would be posted. Typically he’d tell […]
In a blank TJ’s card with a picture of 5 eggs in a nest on the cover, the note below was affixed to the inside. 13 February 2015 – Friday evening Dear Reina, You can not yet read these words yourself and, even were they read aloud to you in the next year or two, […]
By 1960, when Ted and Diana went on tour throughout the United States with the Boston Opera Group’s production of Voyage to the Moon, Fay was probably Diana’s sole “link to the real world” and relief from the absurdities of life in the hotels, on the tour bus and backstage. Diana recounted telling Fay how […]
(1928 – 2003) Beyond what Diana wrote in her 2004 letter to “Hob” about her second husband, Merle “Ted” Puffer, a few more words are in order. Following her disastrous first marriage to Bob Mauer, Diana did say that, if she ever considered marriage again, it would be to someone she knew far better … […]
