I'm going to try and start writing letters again.

Not e-letters, proper old-fashioned pen, paper and snail mail letters.

I used to have a couple of pen pals when I was a teenager.  One was British, the other German.  I remember spending my allowance on nice notepaper and envelopes, sitting outside with my pen and paper and actually using them to write letters to my pals.  I remember too the anticipation of recieving a response..looking for the mail every morning to see if there was anything for me in it, and if there was relishing reading all the details held within it.

Even up until a few years ago I used to write letters.  When my husband would deploy off to god-knows-where, before we had a computer, we used to write each other almost daily.  Phone calls were limited, so letter writing became our primary method of communication.  Again there was that anticipation when approaching the mail box and peering inside to see if my love had written to me.  I think that the mail man really came to abhor coming to my house towards the end of those deployments, especially if he was empty handed.  I'd lay in wait inside the screen door and literally accost him when he came up the front steps.

Then, a few years ago, we got a computer, and e-mail took over.  In the last 5 years I can count on the fingers of two hands the number of hand-written letters and cards I've got from my husband when he's overseas.  Even my parents and friends don't write much anymore.  We send and recieve cards on birthdays and holidays, but we don't use that as our main means of communication anymore.  The mailman has been lulled into a sense of security and is no longer afraid.

I'd like to change that.  I'd like to start writing to people.  I'd like you to join in.  I have a couple of addresses already, but I'd like to collect some more.  If you'd like to start exchanging thoughts and ideas the good old fashioned way, let me know.  My email address is on my blog page....and isn't that ironic!  I'm asking people to email me their addresses so that we can write to each other!

So, anyone interested?