In the New Year I'll Be Writing More Letters

I don't care for the mask representations of animals,
which I suppose we're stuck with for 12 years.

Yesterday afternoon the line at the local Post Office was out the door, so I tried again this morning.

At 9:30 there were no customers at all; yes, it's good to be retired, as one can come and go as one pleases.

I told the postal worker I wanted three sheets of Year-of-the-Dragon stamps.

"Anything else?"

Three Global Forever stamps. I had a few late Christmas cards to send to Asia.

She began ringing up three sheets of ten international stamps, which cost $1.55 each.

Stop, stop, just one.

In the New Year I guess I'll be writing more letters to Hong Kong, Japan, and Europe.