Letter Writing

Summer Gone By

10/05/2012 by Sandra Leave a Comment

ButterFly in August (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Wow the months of August and September just flew by for me or did they? Well let me look back in August we put our home for sale and it sold in 8 days.

This is a good thing but it meant we had 30 days to declutter our home and move sigh. I kept writing letters during these two long months, it was all that I could do to keep my sanity. Days and weeks went by and I really thought the end would not come but alas it did.

We are now enjoy the first few days of October and getting back into a nice routine. We have gone from home living to apartment living which was a big change but a most welcomed one.

I am behind on my letters but catching up each day a bit more. I look forward to the day when I am all caught up again, then some new project will surface and knock me back behind. Oh well such is life isn’t it.

Stack of Letters from the Past

05/02/2012 by Sandra Leave a Comment

This is a stack of letters that I wrote and have not received replies just yet. I am not sure if these pals have moved on and gotten bored with writing or maybe it was me who put them to sleep. hmm I hope it wasn’t me who put them to sleep. Nice thing is that in reading my letters to them I can remember small episodes in my life I had forgotten. Always a good twist to a bad thing.

One Lonely Letter Received Among all the Junk Mail

Grrr I wish I could find something productive to do with the junk mail

Pen Friend Musings – The lost friend

05/01/2012 by Sandra Leave a Comment

Long Lost Pen Pal (Photo credit: andreasnilsson1976)

As I was looking through my box of past letters I notice something. A few good pals have not replied back to my last letter, some as far back as 6 months.

Their lives may have gotten busy or life happened and they have not gotten back to responding. I tend to hold on to these letters for quite a while and I am not sure why. I think I hope that once life settles down they will again pick up pen and paper and write about what has being going on in their life. I don’t mind waiting for a reply if I have a feeling if in the slightest that it is coming. Maybe a quick email or post card saying

Hey a letter will be on it’s way as soon as I get things in order or something.

but no all I hear is silence. Well I will never know or have an answer to this question but.. Why do good pen friends go missing?

The World May Never Know

What Drives Me Batty About A Pen Friend

04/30/2012 by Sandra Leave a Comment

Went to the mailbox the other day to see if I had any mail waiting. I was so glad to see two letters and pull them out and immediately my smile turned to a smirk. Warning a dose of sarcasm coming at you, you have been warned.

What could I have seen in this mailbox that gave me a look of oh poop not again well it’s

a tiny letter. It was so small when I opened the envelope I had a hard time finding the darn letter. It gripes me to no end that someone month after month can take the time and effort to write down 5 lines on a sheet of tiny note paper. On top of that they have to pay postage to send such letter on it’s way. Come on people put a little effort in it and write a regular letter. It really isn’t that difficult and I know you can do it.

See like this nice example I found on the net, it doesn’t even have to be on fancy paper, or typed. As long as I can read it and it’s a letter with content all else can be over looked.

Fortunately, I get only like two or so of these a month so that I am thankful for. Ok I will get off my soap box now, back to regular posting.