As I told my kids when I sent this to them, I did the smiles on the pigs (and the nostrils) because no one else knew how.

It's not easy embroidering a smile onto a crocheted circle.

 
 

For a while this blog may take a strange and unusual form. As I look through letters Elsa Newman has sent to me and review conversations I've had with her, I am looking for things she has said to me--things that I think she would want to say to anyone who reads this blog and cares about her.

This item is from a letter dated March 19, 2008. The words are simple...and at the same time, I see them as heartrending: "May you never have to place a call from a prison."

 

    Elsa Newman,
    with Aine O'Brocken


    Elsa Newman is a prisoner, sentenced to 20 years behind bars for a crime that not only could not be proven against her--but a crime which does not, in fact, exist. She was convicted of conspiracy to commit murder. Conspiracy charges, however--as I only learned yesterday--were dropped against the supposed co-conspirator. So how by all that is holy can there be a conspiracy--when there is no co-conspirator?

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