I just realized that for the past several weeks, I have been sending my parents an email every few days, and copying my best friend on it. (There’s nothing I would tell my mother that I wouldn’t tell my best friend, and anything I would tell my best friend that I wouldn’t tell my mother can go in a separate email). I am copying my friend, with her permission, because I said “if I am going to write this much, I might as well get some mileage out of it!”

I am also sending them a piece of snail mail almost every week. All this in addition to calls.

I am doing this to try to get them to think about something other than my mother’s failing body. I find myself doing lots of fruitless things because there’s nothing I can do to cure her.

At any rate, it is keeping them (and my best friend) more informed about my day-to-day life than they have been since she (my mom) was still able to type and IM’d me often.

So this certainly counts toward being a good correspondent!