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This will be a great way for us to connect with each other and make friends with like-minded women, right?

Subscribers of Women Over Fifty NetworkĪs long as we keep everybody contained within our little Women Over Fifty Network community we should be just fine.

To keep out the riffraff (did you like that ancient term?), all of our Pen Pals will be: I’m talkin’ let’s be good ol’ fashioned, one-on-one, hand-written, send by-snail mail Pen Pals. I’m not saying let’s add each other to our hundreds of other social media “followers”. I’m not talking about sending each other emails that get lost in our junk folders. Let’s be pen-pals! I don’t mean let’s friend each other on Facebook. So…I Created the WOMEN OVER FIFTY NETWORK PEN PAL EXCHANGE Someone they could share their fears with, learn about new adventures from, laugh about aging with. I had noticed as I’d gotten older there weren’t as many opportunities to create friendships, yet I knew there were millions of us out there who were looking for those friendships…camaraderie, encouragement. I wanted to connect with them, and through that connection create ways for those women to connect with each other. My whole purpose in creating Women Over Fifty Network was to connect with women over fifty. Then I had one of those “well DUH! moments.

Someone I could develop a friendship with that could relate to my age and interests. I’m not saying there aren’t some out there that are totally legit, I’m sure there are, but my interest was in connecting with a woman that was near my own age. There didn’t seem to be any crowd control.Ĭall me old fashioned, but with the state of the world today and the importance of keeping our privacy protected, I’d hesitate to put my name out there with all the potential whack-a-do’s trolling the internet. Rows and rows of profile pictures were listed, most blurry or poor quality.

I found several Pen Pal Exchange sites online. Snail mail pen pals are coming back in style again! It made me wonder if people even did that anymore, or if it was another one of those “back in the day” things that had fallen by the wayside. Did you ever have one? I had a couple and absolutely loved getting letters from them. It reminded me of a loooooong time ago when I’d had pen pals. But that week, as silly as it sounds, I was actually excited to get my mail in anticipation of what I’d find…who I’d hear from. Mail has become so impersonal over the years…bills, junk mail, the neighbor’s mail, blah…blah…blah… that going to my mailbox has just become a necessary item on my to-do list each day. It’s not often that I’m excited to open my mail box, but for a few days around Mother’s Day this year, nestled among all the junk mail, were these brightly colored hand-written envelopes. When I saw them, it struck me how seldom I actually get mail that is hand-written and personal.