OMG! A letter!

I faced a rather retro writing challenge today. I needed to write a letter. With like, a pen. And paper. To an 80 year old man.

So I dug out my dusty stationery that really doesn’t get used often enough, grabbed a pen, and then stared blankly at the page. Wow. To think, I used to do this all the time. Seriously, I would write 5-10 letters every week when I was living far from home and before I had a computer and email.

When I think of the volumes of letters I’ve written – both sent and unsent – it shocks me that I’ve practically forgotten how.

Now a quick note to my landlady with the monthly rent check is pretty much all I can muster.

You know what really threw me for a loop though? I very nearly wrote “OMG” at the start of a sentence. Srsly. So accustomed am I to chatting, Twitter and texting that I almost used “OMG” in a letter to an 80-year-old man who has never owned a computer.

How embarrassing. What am I coming to? So I’ve decided I need to stretch some of these little-used writing muscles again. I need to stop being so lazy and computer-driven – it’s time to write a letter once in a while.