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Dear Friends and Family, It feels like we are coming to the end of the pandemic. I know that’s not exactly true because just about everyone I know has…
Leslie Poynor

August 2022

Dear Friends and Family, I write to you with a heavy heart and to ask for your helping hand. In most of my letters, I have written about the beloved…
Leslie Poynor

July 2022

Dear Friends and Family, I am writing to you from the COVID sickbed or rather, more precisely, the Omicron BA.5 sickbed. I am vaccinated and double…
Leslie Poynor

June 2022

Dear Friends and Family, Today is Juneteenth—a celebration of the day when those who had been enslaved learned, two and a half years after the fact…
Leslie Poynor
Dear Friends and Family, Today is the day we will learn details about the first well-organized, well-armed, well-financed and executed attempt to…
Leslie Poynor

March 2022

Dear Friends and Family, Two years ago this Wednesday, six Bay Area counties issued shelter-in-place orders and so began the COVID-19 Lockdown. Three…
Leslie Poynor

December 2021

Dear Friends and Family, Will this pandemic never end? Today is my birthday and every year (except last year) we’ve had Texas Sheet Cake and Eric’s…
Leslie Poynor
Dear Friends and Family, I’ve noticed a pattern in my letters to you—I disappear sometime in the fall (August or September) and return in December. I…
Leslie Poynor

July 2021

Dear Friends and Family, Just two months ago, I wrote you a letter full of hope, gratitude, and love for our re-entry into human contact and connection…
Leslie Poynor
Dear Friends and Family, One year ago today, a group of white people gathered together in our backyard to interrogate, disrupt, and reckon with our…
Leslie Poynor

May 2021

The Whiteness Letters
Leslie Poynor
Dear Friends and Family, This weekend Eric and I went for a walk in our neighborhood. We saw our neighbors without their masks. I asked if they were…
Leslie Poynor
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