When is the last time you picked up a pen and wrote a letter? I hardly ever send anything but thank you notes, but I do adore getting mail! The old-fashioned kind that comes via the post office from parts unknown and is deposited outside our front door by the mailman, Tom. There are shoeboxes in my office filled with old letters, some have been with me for over 25 years. Emails may make life easier and certainly arrive a whole lot faster, but sadly something special has been lost in the art of personal communication.
Pilot has tapped right into that sentiment with its new handwritting app. In a world of obsessed with readability, it allows a bit of personalization back into your communications. This program cleverly translates your very own unique handwriting into a font. Presto, you can now send ‘handwritten’ emails. I posted a link to Pilot Handwriting app and the very next day I got an email back from a dear friend living in Madison Wisconsin. I haven’t seen CJ in 7 months. She was a natural candidate with very lovely penmanship, but I was most touched that she took the time get her handwriting digitized before she wrote back to me. It was that same special feeling you get when a personal letter arrives in the mail.
Wondering how it works? All is revealed in the video below.
I love listening to the jaunty Mozart piano rondo and watching the laptop keys click away! This web app was commissioned by Comercial Arge, the exclusive distributor of Pilot products in Spain, and I can hardly imagine many US apps being promoted with classical music, but it all feels so graceful. I was propelled through a world of nostalgia and charm into believing I really need my handwriting turned into a font… and to get started, I’ll have to find a pen.
Nope, I didn’t hit the dance floor, but there is plenty of space to sit observe the swirl of cowboy hats go by.
My aunt and uncle are into ballroom dancing (left) so they were perfectly at home on the dance floor. Brand spankin’ newlyweds, Terry and Ryan even went out for a spin (right).
What is this animal? A giant armadillo? Who knows, but you can get a pineapple upside down cake shot for $6.50. We passed on that and later in the evening, I convinced Terry to let me try on her cowboy boots. It was a good thing we flew home the next day, or I might have come back with an impulse purchase. You know, something ridiculous like a pair of Lucchese’s from 
Finally, here’s a really low-quality video from my point and shoot G10 camera. I only share it because there truly are some things that a photograph will never capture.
Emily is a lot more smiley these days. During all of our other visits she used to stare me down with a really intense look, but now she is seeming more lighthearted and fun-loving like her brother.
We were too busy eating, but some people were just there to take in the sunset.
Back at our place, the granite patio is really coming along:
This plane was doing shoreline runs over the weekend. Luckly, the engines are so loud, I had time to race outside with my camera:
I got my first taste of the food carts between Cedar and York at Yale New Haven Hospital. We arrived at 2 pm, too late to try 
My niece Kiera and her Uncle Blue, after three trips to St. Raphael’s… It was one of the longest days ever…
Amazingly ‘pop pop’ is already out of the hospital and continuing to mend at home.