Last Known Address

Back in Weeknotes #1 (February 5-9, 2024), I mentioned a new song I’d written about my post office box in Ann Arbor. It’s called “Last Known Address” and will come out later this year as part of a project of the same name.

As rental prices have gone up, I’ve considered abandoning my long-held, but underused mailbox. Now that I’ve sung about it and listed my address in lyric form, I guess I’ll have to keep up the rent.

In that same post, I suggested that readers might “lobby for its continued existence” by sending me a hand-written letter or postcard to counterbalance the trickle of catalogs and junk mail I usually receive.

On Saturday morning, after a trip the farmers market and record store, I visited my mailbox. Tucked in between the April edition of the Ann Arbor Observer and a notice from the Detroit Symphony Orchestra was this postcard, sent by Bill Gallagher all the way from Lake Tōya in Hokkaido, Japan. Thank you, Bill!

The lack of a comments section on this blog is intentional. I’m mostly using it as a personal writing exercise, though I’m grateful to those who have followed along. If you have any comments or simply wish to validate my biannual contribution to the U.S. Postal Service you can follow Bill’s lead by writing to me at:

Timothy Monger
P.O. Box 8036
Ann Arbor, MI 48107

Cheers!
TM