Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • Discover millions of ebooks, audiobooks, and so much more with a free trial

    Only $11.99/month after trial. Cancel anytime.

    A Life Through Letters: An Aging Father's Legacy, a Son's Revelation, the Birth of a Movement
    A Life Through Letters: An Aging Father's Legacy, a Son's Revelation, the Birth of a Movement
    A Life Through Letters: An Aging Father's Legacy, a Son's Revelation, the Birth of a Movement
    Ebook168 pages2 hours

    A Life Through Letters: An Aging Father's Legacy, a Son's Revelation, the Birth of a Movement

    By Ashley Davis

    ()

    Read preview

    About this ebook

    When was the last time you wrote a letter? Not a text or a tweet but a pen-to-paper or hand-typed message of gratitude, reflection, or expression of friendship? One that was more than a simple thank-you note ... one you thoughtfully sat down and gave your care, time, and attention to write?

    Toward the end of his life, Ashley Davis's

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLion Prince Publishing
    Release dateNov 30, 2016
    ISBN9780998142029
    A Life Through Letters: An Aging Father's Legacy, a Son's Revelation, the Birth of a Movement
    Author

    Ashley Davis

    Ashley Davis is a software craftsman, entrepreneur, and author with over 25 years of experience in software development—from coding, to managing teams, to founding companies. He has worked for a range of companies, from the tiniest startups to the largest internationals. Along the way, he has contributed back to the community through his writing and open source coding. He is currently VP of Engineering at Hone, building products on the Algorand blockchain. He is also the creator of Data-Forge Notebook, a desktop application for exploratory coding and data visualization using JavaScript and TypeScript.

    Read more from Ashley Davis

    Related to A Life Through Letters

    Related ebooks

    Self-Improvement For You

    View More
    View More

    Related podcast episodes

    Related articles

    • Article

      LETTERS OF Love

      May 10, 2022

      LETTERS OF Love
      5 min read

    • Article

      Ladies of LETTERS

      Jun 8, 2022

      Ladies of LETTERS
      4 min read

    • Article

      THE WD INTERVIEW Dani Shapiro

      Oct 30, 2019

      THE WD INTERVIEW Dani Shapiro
      11 min read

    • Article

      Revising Your Own History: The Millions Interviews Anya Yurchyshyn

      May 2, 2018

      Anya Yurchyshyn’s debut memoir My Dead Parents is a gut-punch, but not for the reasons you might expect. Yurchyshyn’s account runs counter to traditional narratives of loss: after a fraught childhood and adolescence, she mostly felt relief when her p

      11 min read

    • Article

      Letters

      Nov 4, 2021

      It’s often said that writers should avoid writing for free because it lowers the general standard and leads to poorer conditions. If that were true, then my writing this letter would be wrong. But, I know it’s not. The alternative isn’t a fullypaid l

      5 min read

    • Article

      The Thank-you Project

      Sep 3, 2020

      The Thank-you Project
      9 min read

    • Article

      Writing Partners

      Oct 10, 2018

      STEPH AUTERI is a writer and editor who has written about women’s health and sexuality for the Atlantic, VICE, Pacific Standard, Rewire.News, the Establishment, and other publications. She is the author of A Dirty Word, published by Cleis Press in Oc

      9 min read

    • Article

      Breaking the Rules

      Aug 15, 2018

      LENORE MYKA is the author of King of the Gypsies: Stories (BkMk Press, 2015). She is a recipient of a 2016 National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship, and her writing has appeared in a variety of publications, including the New England Rev

      10 min read

    • Article

      Appease the Spirit

      Jun 14, 2021

      Kat Chow has always been attracted to stories of loss, especially from communities of color that investigate the impact of this loss across generations. She explored such stories (and many others) as a founding member of the Code Switch team, a proje

      6 min read

    • Article

      You Can’t Create Alone: On Fostering Literary Community

      Mar 26, 2018

      Writing has its own mythology. The word author stems from the Latin auctoreum, which literally means “one who causes to grow.” And whatever the reasons may be—our media representations, our educational system, or our star-struck awe at famous writers

      7 min read

    • Article

      Letters

      Sep 1, 2022

      Letters
      4 min read

    • Article

      Letter

      Mar 26, 2021

      WRITERS are a fragile bunch. We find it hard to believe our friends and family when they tell us we’re talented, yet we cling to every criticism that’s thrown our way. Nothing boosts a writer’s spirit like words of encouragement or feedback from a st

      2 min read

    • Article

      A Year in Reading: Mateo Askaripour

      Dec 14, 2021

      Looking back on it now, 2021 was a year that I learned what it meant to not just be a reader, or a writer, but also a literary citizen. The post A Year in Reading: Mateo Askaripour appeared first on The Millions.

      5 min read

    • Article

      Anything Goes: The Millions Interviews Chris Rush

      Apr 29, 2019

      One of the things the Catholic church prepared me to do was to believe in things that were invisible and possibly even farfetched and totally impossible. The post Anything Goes: The Millions Interviews Chris Rush appeared first on The Millions.

      6 min read

    • Article

      I Was Formed by What I Didn’t Know: The Millions Interviews Dani Shapiro

      Jan 25, 2019

      I didn't have the luxury of thinking, I’m going to write about this five years from now, after I’ve processed it. This book felt like it required immediacy. The post I Was Formed by What I Didn’t Know: The Millions Interviews Dani Shapiro appeared fi

      12 min read

    • Article

      Having A Pen Pal Is Good Medicine

      Jul 1, 2020

      Having A Pen Pal Is Good Medicine
      4 min read

    • Article

      The New 2022 Nonfiction

      Aug 17, 2022

      The New 2022 Nonfiction
      13 min read

    • Article

      Should We Share Our Love Letters From Previous Relationships?

      Apr 19, 2024

      We are in our mid-80s and have been together for 12 years. Our relationship journeys to our meeting point were utterly different. My partner has two marriages behind her as well as a long-term partner. Mine was a marriage of more than 40 years. My pa

      2 min read

    • Article

      In Books We Find Ourselves

      Jul 5, 2022

      I currently enjoy a miniature book club with five other women. My church placed nearly thirty of us into five different groups with the goal of getting to know one another better. Each group was tasked with trying to gather for different activities t

      6 min read

    • Article

      Dear Claire: On Letters From My Readers

      Feb 22, 2018

      I started writing in isolation. For me, it was the natural result of reading too much: those extra words bred in the pools between my ears, multiplying and evolving, and finally spilled out of me in a tidal rush. I read everything when I was young. I

      6 min read

    • Article

      Eirinie Carson

      Aug 16, 2023

      Eirinie Carson
      3 min read

    Related categories

    Reviews for A Life Through Letters

    0 ratings

    0 ratings0 reviews

    What did you think?

    Tap to rate

    Review must be at least 10 words

      Book preview

      A Life Through Letters - Ashley Davis

      abook_preview_excerpt.html[KrH f3I$uUwJ&EQRQZVH 2E$" 0+{Շlg7טI=wn>Ld >y=2\o:ٳ'Ϟ/==ǣ]y{uw.lwT7Pu!/qq2*OQq"ݰjBbcPjQT!]X =?Į;צmmCݖ_q1b/fB)v8X,c|X`2vXM]Sҵ<,}WƗ}P֗}+̿aq_캀Qj!%H . [w=/J<ůCEUļvo'*J_vؖq]0nH>.DLK9qOJUhOWovv?_<}_}O^1gaչv&5]f/ϯWN ob)*¦NzWŽ a?N[O ۫EHn= 27)vo]yȯlYȡm$7_8/~xvOջ/o1* חo?\//|h9m~>IC3w<t]k/M|7q[u4GrҸy^.>\|c<^^~{Z\sŧxƔ''O3I=te]Ǟ4p|v}yy*y]!cFx[ 7p|s<_89\/Kޟ^^\-~\CX$wgg_>,?=Vu cvUwhe'k(76{jLgNbC0.O_^?b=:88wFlWs@;N:z]) vv>b`#_7\&bKbDb;WanF)kQ9*s H8liwPԈ+7X-id dK^hcG"̹6@iKHt:!S`RU@KqrmfhڣňK;cʸM3EBې2@b;"ӁeɖPhQd3fd9˛~}U\q7Cneɛ>@(7én m@rD/9c_H4:n_i@|"v?-9) hrd=Vi'G 2ȤsT\Ō2brdfiW{CTot#zR\!F&3$hVS8t)/,Gdt1~bwD13avs#N@JA5^+Dk"ʰ)ȈɁ`?[s\4$=`QmBw=XD"(޴~O\Ek6Gɰ"Xq4*n 0^ky $YF)UA"#C_cF3˳,m fQq0n! oPb*WRVi Ĺ.%`cfoFQ~,XX91ƴz|K`Dx%46^Tb1hm5:ơqETQ%INJm6Wk b,ܵ L k!ft0ho|Xsvf0mq17PR]S|#J"w6F_׮@ȶro&*Lfe X\^kߏH镠+~`O$46F@f kBi K8mcBe?V%uĩ*KPC'(}p¬I0Uγ~"g5Nݑ@[;3pMėIhY}m{,r a0>tG*k #(FsNؕ䂠Z%Ѓ$2|N ' ?42MX| 䄯 Α`_M\7QO4[3Lzy{aL!@0REiSMSޒG+ǔJf2@p29Yʀc"6}Bȭu$h!*!0hVE{ Q1ILɀhiN1H L[N҅Z ;z24tdU&}G(96Ц1 #6Q*VD^] H_?7x3YX5mAS `jB`#JQD̍uv` / '[bC%l_xV&Mf"Aػ~ѿ9:9l:eJ c0jpv+mAjeBn缙n#_7 p }YHxbnϰ[wa`lM K5dr&N @S,@v#RK-ڞfld$MMϡ9D lRɚ)f{ aqшCs}S V/&yN$Di u$!三RXIsUZ5Mt@Ƭ3Rϣ]D P'&.ڒB*c&!11He;qB@:s @+Ce6 ▘&U 9uΫff)=L.ϴ@ĝms"I}CvC8^9eyBMv|r*RCV)}cOK}RׯŨ؉cW{v~=$c8I;#lW`,)C#Ñ ԪfT4p/o4oI ʶ7C@dp溈֍2j&2w*b/iz"rAEAra܉ ZOԼT?11)曧ƇxI+U|'/xo`|̍Lwky"' KF^$+#>WEoF탇Ġ%yՇ51mt< ͐r!t_zcDܫvR2x7vfV!HiTA 5 "E1KGj#'C@&5Kn1T>ks(S)|6^JCelH n[vp] ~[Zcoc9B T5%l 1j% nEF`o }FEiQeBd,ϕ7f-v^NlDARAkƴ a)&xMLV@!%!$ K'%\hk1I^[ZM +-zXZ{ӿEz\Xv XPZmj-R:6fX9%\&9گUFvV@I{&_LV3}HUG܍?r!͸N:B%`e7mK\ÐY]g7hz͹B5urW5uZ`|NB 2Ms pt _Vjj_e*VEw*y-йnKCoC״cԛQyG|r2ٷKBJ/(Q]- xTdhVNYڌ\*[}NnRoY6H2QcλaFGȪ<*M%6L"gH4!u#rrb6ja FvҹJ0_^3ucZMCͯ 7ͥإ%TJ6\ie~w,xǺmOXh)P6E6+mkYDJ(L3MG!FnHĚv+2J}]hۏ٣Z=Fq'ؙASlxȔjGlxeyzck{:Kr1<<ًOO/dJ!v^LwY`^)NqJR_ |ģ|{"\z^e利m75r oۼp[S*C( ?i\w*7^UX> H۱ Np8k^ж`a{Uc^RUfge>tHo[? )e'H;; tJٜl?0W8P1YS "av ĨVChP@;}H#&ډO\|/N7dtj5Ӌdʓ"H_йŔa2l1lflyƪV{i뾕P{*㕙bS4'{OʯWΨ2r6L"zൄwW;I>?xՓ#0ܳ[|-y*B]Ac4xAKoDNvRVt]eF1YhFtz˗e{Kw?]~{bgH|gwf q1[Ge^-dz??UF*hGV~JkAx3!-j WZVpQD Hk3]zU"2Jeg}1/rw\.Cv/DSDDwa1'n0Rʝ=3/d[r"接`Uz{MM$.*r> C7^E2Ғ ;! 3^E# f[&ĝt9wږZ
      Enjoying the preview?
      Page 1 of 1