I recently renewed my passion for written letters (you know, paper, postage, the mailbox??). I last had pen pals when I was a child through a service my school teacher signed us up for. It had been decades since I wrote to someone I didn't know personally. If I am honest it had been almost that long since I mailed more than Christmas or birthday cards and thank you notes. Long, newsy letters have given way to text messages, emails and phone calls. When I was a child it wa