During an ongoing tedious, disgusting but apparently obligatory review of boxes of materials formerly in storage for perhaps twenty-five years, I have come upon some pages of The NIKL Gazette. This “publication” was something invented back in 1994 as a way to send each set of grandparents a regular newsletter of anecdotes and reports about their young grandchildren. Some issues and individual pages are unaccounted for, but what remains gives me a chuckle now and reminds me of how easily accurate recall slips away in the absence of contemporaneous documentation. One incident that I do remember, for which the corresponding NIKL page has not yet turned up, was when I reported that 3-year-old Nikolas, while riding in downtown Los Angeles traffic, spotted an adjacent car with a heavily dented fender and exclaimed “Look! Earthquake damage!”. (This, shortly after we had experienced a fairly significant local earthquake.)
Anyway, click the link below for a PDF containing what pages I have so far recovered:
Btw, the NIKL (Nik-Ivi-Kim-Lawrence) Gazette was the predecessor to this whilebusy blog.