Coffee & Writing

I was a good girl, took out my favorite red pen, Holiday cards, and started my mission to write my verbose epistles. My first letter was to a dear friend with that special card mentioned in the previous post. One of the letters I wrote was to my aunt who is a math professor and I included the equation when broken down says, “merry x-mas.”

Fun fact: X in X-mas is an old form of the Greek that means Christ, so Christ is actually in X-mas already for people who want to put Christ back into X-mas.

The beginning of the equation is a bit small, this is an enlarged view:

I was enjoying writing to these people I love, except I ran into a problem. My hand started to hurt, and my handwriting was atrocious. I always had nice handwriting, but now it looked like a 6-year-old wrote it.

I couldn’t figure out what happened, and then I realized something. When was the last time I really wrote with pen and paper? I am a novelist, I am in graduate school, I communicate by email. Had I used the keyboard so much that I had forgotten how to write?

So, I had to stop writing Holiday cards. My idea to complete my list was a rather pathetic one. I have been typing the letters and folding them many times over so they could fit in the small cards.

FYI: These are the glitter covered cards I am using. They are a product of Papyrus, which can be found on Amazon. Papyrus has good quality and creative cards, check them out. That is the size I am folding the paper down to; although, it’s white, not mustard yellow. This is a keyboard similar to mine. I assume my favorite word QWERTY is where it should be.

I suppose it’s alright to type a Holiday card, I get to add a holiday touch to it. I inserted this into the text of a letter for good friends of the family.

At least it’s a memorable card.

Better get back to typing those cards.