Sarah and Emily Ritchey

My Mom, Sarah Ritchey, sends me letters and postcards that reflect her everyday life.  I have a box of them that I look through every once in a while and I am reminded of some of the small special things that she has shared with me over the years: recipes, encouragement, laughter.  Here I am as a baby, in Sobradinho, on the outskirts of Brasilia, Brazil.  She was probably with my Dad, who was a soil scientist, at an experiment site.  I wonder when I see this what it must have been like to push this pram over dirt and rocks!

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