Dear ____

Dear Younger Son,

You know I love you dearly, but {you know there was a “but” coming up here, didn’t you!} will you PLEASE let me know which days you can get off in January so I can start checking airline and hotel prices and start planning what we want to see in NYC? Oh, and why do I no longer see you on line?

Your well-organized mom!

Dear Older Son,

Just because your first wife ran off with someone she met on the Internet does not mean that your second wife will do this, you know! Get a computer at home! {You have got that cute little room in your house just crying out to be a computer room.}

Your lost-without-a-computer mum

Dear Library Boss Lady

I still have not forgiven you for letting me go off on my last day without a word. And don’t think being smiling and charming to me when I go in to the library these days or letting me use the library as a pick-up site for freecycle will make me change my mind. {Athough I guess I must say that your offer to let me use the library as a tutoring place when I start tutoring has softened my wrath somewhat especially as you brought it up…}

Your semi-pissed-off part-time past employee

Dear EBay sellers,

Stop it! Just STOP putting out all those pretty earrings for sale…

Your addicted buyer

Dear Fred,

May I just calmly point out YET ONE MORE TIME that wiping up stains and spatters AS you cook means I don’t have to spend  a long time scrubbing  the stove top every morning?

Your appreciative partner

Until later…