I used to write a generic letter every other month or so before I started writing a daily blog. But I do have friends who either don’t have a computer or prefer not to tune in and with whom I still want to keep in touch. As you know, the generic letter grew out of the annual Christmas letter when it became tedious to write the same old news in card after card and so much easier to write it once and print it out in sufficient numbers to satisfy all – hence generic. And as you also know, we keep writing Christmas cards however brief, just to assure others that we are still here and hope they are the same.

My Christmas Generic follows: