Tag Archives: Open Letter Continuum
Looking Back on the Open Letter Continuum
The year is coming to an end, and with it, the regular appearance of the Open Letter Continuum. It has been an interesting, sometimes, difficult, sometimes rewarding and all times useful exercise in revisiting and releasing. Some of the letters I addressed to those I think about fondly still. Others are addressed to those I’d …
An Open Letter: Perhaps THE Open Letter
For the purposes of this open letter, the subject will be addressed as ‘Cynthia.’ –Ty Dear Cynthia, Let me start by saying that I got my first DVD player. That was of course years and years ago. But I started this letter with that fact, because that is the subject of the first email …
An Open Letter to the Dead
For the purposes of this open letter, the addressee will be known as Rhonda. Dear Rhonda, Of all the letters I have written for the Open Letter Continuum, only yours is literally impossible to deliver, as far as I know. You have been dead for about fifteen years. It was around this time of year …
An Open Letter to a Friend Lost to Religion
For the purposes of this open letter, the subject will be addressed as Tammy. -Ty Dear Tammy, From the first moment we met in class the day I had a cold, and you offered me your box of tissues, I felt a connection with you. A connection that did grow and mature as our …
An Open Letter to My First Internet Friend
For the purposes of this open letter, the subject will be addressed as Courtney. –Ty Dear Courtney, You may remember me if you stopped to think about it, I don’t know. I wouldn’t be surprised or too offended if you didn’t though. Until I happened to read about your obscure hometown last year, I hadn’t …
Ty Unglebower 