Our Mail Bag blog posts feature letters and postcards that members send to us at LetterMo to share with the community. You can submit content to the Mail Bag by following the instructions at Mail-In Blog Submissions.
We received another mail-in submission for the LetterMo blog, this time from Bev Sykes writing from the United States, who has been a member of LetterMo for a few years, but has been a life-long letter writer.
Bev writes:
Dear Adam,
Beverly Sykes
I am so pleased to be a part of LetterMo. I am an 81 year old retired theater critic and I have been writing ever since I was in grammar school. It started in San Francisco, when a woman would find girls in England for girls in the US who wanted pen pals. From then on, I wrote lots of letters. There was a period of five or so years when I wrote daily to a guy with physical and mental problems.
I joined League of Extraordinary PenPals on Facebook and have made lots of friends through that group. I also have several sponsored children through Compassion Int’l. Some of them I sponsor financially, others I just write to because their financial sponsors don’t want to write and Compassion feels that it is important for sponsors and children to correspond.
I always type because my handwriting is not legible, and also because I now have some arthritis which makes hand writing painful. But nobody seems to mind that I type letters…the whole point is getting words and feelings on paper and sharing with your partner.
I don’t know that I need to actually belong to LetterMo because I can’t think of a time in the past many years when I did NOT write to someone every day.
I look forward to learning more about other participants in LetterMo and perhaps making new friends through this group.
Stay well and happy