Getting ready for Christmas next year

I know you're out there...those type of people that actually write their Christmas cards a year early so they're done by the time that hectic month of December rolls around. Well, this blog is not for you. It couldn't be for you because you obviously wouldn't be able to write those 2-page letters a year in advance about what's happened to your either perfect or dysfunctional family.

I personally love how society suddently forgets the use of punctuation and proper language in these "catch-u-up" letters. Apparently it's alright to blunder about aimlessly from thought to thought without ever using a comma or a period and lacking clarity as the writer tries to eventually end up with the scintillating clincher sentence "things are about the same here" that makes us all breathe a sigh of relief of course without ever realizing you just had a run-on sentence that lasted a paragraph.

Or, perhaps this example is one of the finest displays of the poor writing and English instruction in our "leave no child behind" school system.

I'm not totally against the letters. I do occasionally enjoy reading them because it certainly provides insight for those I don't see often. But at least read it over before you print it 100 times! And at least have the decency to personalize it with one sentence to the person you're sending it to. If it doesn't have a "Merry Christmas" or "The finest to you and yours" at the bottom in pen, I'm just throwing it in the trash next year. It doesn't take more than a few seconds to show someone you really care.