Under the Category, "Are You Kidding Me?"

I just read a little article in USA Weekend magazine entitled, "Grandma has no computer? Still send her e-mail." Here's a quote from the article that basically explains it: "There's now a service that sends family news and digital pictures from your e-mail account to someone's snail mailbox for $9.95"

Okay, let me get this straight. Granny has no computer so she doesn't do email. So instead of spending 44 cents on a stamp and hand-writing a letter that the old gal can hold in her hand, and read in your own loving handwriting....instead, you go grab your credit card, and spend $9.95 for someone else to send "family news" to her regular postal mailbox. Does this sound bizarre to anyone else? Okay, I get it that you can also, with a touch of button, include digital photos. But COME ON!

Has it really come to this? With all the ways to print lab quality photos in your own home, you can't send her a nice note with some photos inside? When I read this, all I could think of was my own grandmother, in her 90's, waiting for my dad to bring in her mail every day, and asking every single day, "Anything personal?" Amid all the bills and solicitations, all she hoped for each and every day, was a hand-written letter from someone who loved her.

So let's all take out a piece of notepaper today, spend 44 cents and make someone's day. You don't even need a credit card.