Sunday, December 21, 2003
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December Newsletters
My Aunt Marlene faithfully sends one of those family newsletters every Christmas, chronicling the past twelve months of activity. She invests a lot of time and effort putting it together, and probably sends out twenty or thirty of them.
Does anyone read them?
If the letter comes from a close friend or relative, you probably already know about anything really newsworthy that has happened, along with plenty of trivia. And if from an acquaintance, why would you care?
I have two suggestions:
1) If you feel like writing one of these, go right ahead. Make it long and detailed. Then put it into your scrapbook before you are tempted to make copies and send them to everyone on your Christmas card list.
2) If you want to send something besides just the card, but don't have time to write a long personalized letter to everyone on the list...MAKE STUFF UP!! Or write a family newsletter about some other family.
What do you think? Maybe I should write one myself.
My Aunt Marlene faithfully sends one of those family newsletters every Christmas, chronicling the past twelve months of activity. She invests a lot of time and effort putting it together, and probably sends out twenty or thirty of them.
Does anyone read them?
If the letter comes from a close friend or relative, you probably already know about anything really newsworthy that has happened, along with plenty of trivia. And if from an acquaintance, why would you care?
I have two suggestions:
1) If you feel like writing one of these, go right ahead. Make it long and detailed. Then put it into your scrapbook before you are tempted to make copies and send them to everyone on your Christmas card list.
2) If you want to send something besides just the card, but don't have time to write a long personalized letter to everyone on the list...MAKE STUFF UP!! Or write a family newsletter about some other family.
What do you think? Maybe I should write one myself.
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