As midlife women, we grew up in an era where good penmanship wasn’t an unheard of concept, and cursive writing was taught in school. Remember when the teacher would stand at the blackboard and write out the alphabet, upper and lower case, and actually teach you how to write? Ahhhh, those were the days.
As technology has grown, it seems that my handwriting has suffered exponentially. I went from beautiful cursive writing to butt ugly chicken scratch. I’m not happy about that.
It seems that the art of writing is a coughing, hacking, on it’s last leg kind of dying.
So what is there to be done about that?
I’ve given this some thought over the past few weeks. The catalyst for such introspective musings occurred as I was taking notes at a meeting. When I arrived back to my cubicle, to my horror I could barely read what I’d just written. Wait . . . is that word “double” or “bubble”? Why in the hell would I write “The next faw weirds are private”? It was making absolutely no sense. I have only myself to blame.
- Send me an email (see address below).
- In that email, feel free to ask me one (1) question of your choice. (Please no vulgarities; an honest question of inquiry will suffice.) Ask me something about midlife, menopause, my dog Chaka, where I see myself 10 years from now, my favorite color, etc.
- Include your home address in the email.
I will hand write a personal response to you on pretty stationary, in a lovely greeting card, on a note card, etc., and snail mail it back to you. (NOTE: Your physical address will ONLY be used for purposes of sending you a response. Your address won’t be shared, sold, bartered, leaked, etc.)
It’ll be interesting to see how many of you participate in this. I’m looking forward to hearing from you with your questions!
I love this….♥️
Thank you Laura! Send me a question! 🙂
Yes, I used to love to write but now I like sending and receiving cards, however, since the downsizing, I no longer save the cards – trying to stay decluttered! Happy New Year
Declutter the clutter…I get it. I especially enjoy cards, Antionette. I have a large collection; at some point, I’ll need a specific card; I go to my card file and there it is! 😉 Happy New Year to you as well.
Writing personal notes and cards is a lost art form. I still do it however. Just not as much as I used to. It also doesn’t help that postage keeps going up!
I feels good to be able to sit down, grab a pencil or pen and allow yourself to be reflective in the moment. That’s what writing by hand does for me. Yup…need to do it more often.
I’m doing something similar. How much fun is it to practice our handwriting!! I journal by hand every day and have nurtured my love of handwriting by also buying myself lovely pens.
I’ve received many ‘submissions’ and look forward to answering (this has been a busy week). And speaking of busy, I really need to make time for that. For me, I believe it’ll be a form of self-care.
I’ve started to write again in notebooks but I do miss the joy of writing letters and sending cards. I would have sent you an email but I live in India. This is a great idea, Valerie!
It may take weeks to arrive, Corrine, but I would send a nice note card to you in India! 🙂