Hello! Deirdre here, the youngest of the Creed siblings.

It wasn't unusual for my parents to share their family lives with others, whether it be with a stranger on the airplane between our homes in Kotzebue and Fairbanks, Alaska, in the grocery line, or at a friend's barbecue. For Christmas each year, they took this to another level, however. From the Creed's, you didn't receive a nice little photo of the family and a short sentence, you received meticulously edited stories written in third-person compiled in a newspaper-length newsletter format, the longest coming in at 28 pages long.

 

It was to be expected, both of my parents come from journalistic backgrounds. Before they were English professors, my mother (Mama) was a news anchor for KTUU News and my father (Papa) an investigative reporter for the Daily News Miner.

 

Although I remember my embarrassment as a child seeing our family newsletters in friend's bathrooms (I guess it made great reading on the toilet!), now I look back at these yearly snapshots with gratitude. In the end, it was a gift to their children more than anything.

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Recently, I had Mama send me all of the newsletters to digitally archive, and so this website was born to be shared with family and close friends (Sorry! This one is not for you, Mr.-Guy-Lucky-Enough-To-Be-Seated-Next-To-My-Father-on-the-Airline).