I can't recall the last handwritten letter I've sent or recieved. Sort of a lost art, which is sad. My mom, now gone, saved every letter I wrote. It's been nice to have those, so I can go back and see what was going on as my kids were growing up. Sure, that can be done with email, but it seems different. It's hard to hold an email in your hands, unless you print it out. I hate to admit it, but I send emailed Thank You notes, and emailed cards for any occassion. Makes me want to sit down and write a letter...but then, I'd have to find a stamp!
It's been several months for me and that was to thank a family member for helping us out financially. Other than that, it's been eons (no pun intended). I usually phone or email. I have a tremor which makes it difficult for me to write if I want anyone to be able to read it.
Amen to thinking about our troops. I do send notes from time to time. A real bonified letter, nope.
Do not write letters except at Christmas time and sometimes I sent a birthday card with a note in it. Stamps have gone up so much so maybe a "good thing" that I do not write letters.
The only letters I ever received on a regular basis were from my mother. Would give anything to get such a letter now. Did not save very many of them, unfortunately. She died in 1993.
Christmas letters are another thing altogether. Few people take the time to write even a few lines on a Christmas card which would be preferable to the NEWSLETTERS that glowingly detail and embellish every family member's accomplishments during the year. It's not that I don't enjoy the newsletters, it is that they aren't, in some instances, very real or believable.
I send a newsletter at Christmas with my cards but it is 1/4 of a page and tells 3 things...How I am with my work...how my husband's health is and any vacations we took. I don't include everyone in the family for the same reason.
Back in the 60s I had several pen-pals in various countries and I also wrote to cousins in CT all the time. I've always been more of a writer than a "phone talker", only now all my pen-pals have become e-pals. I'm still in touch with my very first pen-pal, from Holland, through marriages, divorces, children & grandchildren. We've visited back & forth many times (well, before the economy went belly-up anyway) and I consider her my long distance sister.
And God bless & keep the troops. Bring them home soon.
I, too was thinking about how hot our soldiers must be, this morning. Hoping they know how very much they are appreciated and loved. I did email my soldier from church. We each choose one, from a list, to keep emails going out to. Does that count?
I have trouble with my right hand falling asleep. Well, that is my excuse for not writing letters. I use to write to our neighbor when he was deployed to Viet Nam. that was in '69-'72. Used to send him cut outs from our local paper, like who graduated college or who got married. Stuff like that. He told me, a few years back, that he really appreciated those. I know. It is a lost art.
Yes... God Bless our Troops!!
I always wanted a pen pal when I was young - one of my mother's friends had one all through her life but mine weren't devoted to it.
My mother wrote to me when I left home nad moved out west and often would include a recipe for something she made - usually Clam Chowder or special dishes...I put them in my recipe files so I can still read about her life when I moved away in the early 60's now.
