Until about a year ago, I had never bought stamps.
I knew how to send mail, thanks to an elementary school lesson tucked away in the recesses of my memory, but I could probably count the number of times I had actually written a letter on one hand. Since last year, writing letters has become one of the few ways to make new friends that doesn’t feel like exhausting or risk contracting and spreading COVID.
When the pandemic first moved all socializing online, I embraced it; Zoom happy…