Since you've given me permission to freely "ramble" all I wish (smile) then ramble I shall do haha! Which I am sure you have seen by now. I do have my times where I dont do alot of writing at once but lately its not been that way, it kinda goes back and forth I guess. Id say not having written anything personal to anyone except through email and having always enjoyed having penpals in the past has something to do with it. I have had pen pals from around the world since I was 10 yrs old and my fam let me put an ad in a pre-teen celebrity lover magazine (haha- smile) called Tiger Beat. LOL. I did not think it would get published, but all of a sudden about a month and a half later, we started receiving all this mail in the box for me from other states, Australia, the UK, New Zealand, the Phillippines, etc. I was like, WoW! I kept in touch with some of these pen friends until we were adults, and even though Id say communication between at least 8 out of 10 left over from the early 1990s pen pal ad (smile) kinda tapered off when one of us went off to college/university or got married (some big change in one of our lives, whichever kind that may be but for me it was college and the year 2001 was insane) But then the internet got big, and soon by around mid-2000s, I could find anybody on it. Ive since looked up my old friend Nika from the Phillipines after almost 8 yrs of no contact, my very good friend Kath from New South wales, Australia who Ive kept in touch with the most (we sent christmas packages each year and have never missed a year since she responded to my penpal ad in 1994, even when it was too busy/crazy in our lives to write starting around late 1999, early 2000, weve sent holiday packages for now over a period of 18 long yrs!) and also found several from the other states here in the US as well. (smile) I even had a pen pal in WI from KauKauna? Do you know where that is? We wrote from 1994-1998 as well. OK gonna hit reply and send some more ramblin' your way! You asked for it, haha- (smile) Take care! -CC