Love, Mom XXOO

#Writehere prompt: A Hallmark moment

For a decade in the 1990s, I went to the Penland Craft School the last week of August, to take a week-long workshop in printmaking, painting, photography, or paper making. Check-in was Sunday afternoon. One year, I had mail waiting for me, a wonderful surprise: a card from Mom.

Hi sweetheart —
Hope you got there safe and sound
Now’s the time to lay…