Who doesn't love getting mail? I mean, real mail...not bills or credit card offers. We're talking bona fide snail mail!

Hearing from an old friend or a distant relative is always refreshing. It takes us out of the busyness of our days to think about someone else...someone who was thoughtful enough to take time out of the busyness of his or her day to write to us.

Have you ever considered the stories that are told through writing letters?

• A love story between a soldier and his wife
• A kindling of a love affair
• Generational tales between a grandparent and grandchild or parent and child
• Childhood friends separated by a parent's job relocation
• Lifetime search to locate a birth parent or a long-lost cousin

Letter writing is a dying art, but it doesn't have to be. Start reaching out and touching the lives of others today by writing a letter!

If maintaining correspondence interests you, check out this step-by-step Letter-Writing Action Plan.

If you haven’t finished the letter above yet, I urge you to do that right now. Your story is worth telling and maintaining correspondence is a fantastic way to do it!

Have you considered starting a scrapbook to further enhance your memoir-writing project?