Dearest Reader,
Thank you for visiting LizLetters, the blog-style site of my project to write a letter a day to someone in the world. Snail mail is my method of choice, though you will inevitably find e-mails here and there.
You may perhaps be wondering: “Why?” Well, I love getting mail, and if you don’t send mail, I find, the only people who correspond with you want to send you credit cards. I don’t need to tell you about the slippery muddy slide to hell that leads to! Perhaps I am easily amused, but I have gotten a bit of a thrill in the past from corresponding with Senators, editors, big companies, city agencies, etc. Letters are simply a way for me to feel connected to the world. The internet has us more connected than ever, but whenever I am online I feel that I’m at a masquerade ball.
I was first inspired to start writing letters when I was a senior at Skyline High School in Oakland and my English teacher Herb Kennedy passed out a photocopy of a page from the book The Lazlo Letters by Don Novello. I won’t drag out all my dusty old letters for this occasion. After all, in the next year I’ll be writing more letters than I’ve probably written in my life!
Here we go! Keep reading!
Your Humble Servant,
Liz Mann
