Personally, Conrad, I do not like receiving Christmas cards, per se.

If you want to send me a year-end letter telling me about how your life is going, that's another kettle of fish entirely. That's a letter, not just a Christmas Card.

But it's not the folded piece of paper and pretty picture that appeals to me at all. In fact, I dread getting a card that has nothing inside but "Dear ____, happy holidays" (or whatever). "Love, _____". All that tells me is that I'm a name on someone's list, and that the calender is creeping up on a certain date. Whoop-de-doo. I'd rather know that the life of another tree had been spared.

If you like sending homemade cards, and sharing yourself with your friends and family through that medium, I'm happy for you. But there are more than one way to celebrate the love of people in our lives, and the most loving generous way is to give them what they'd each want and need, not to impose what you want to give onto them.

Now that I know you like getting pretty cards, if we ever become friends, I'll be sure to send you one. But, unlike you, I don't have a place to display them, and as I use a wheelchair, it is sometimes diffecult for me to get to the mailbox and sort out the junk mail from the cards and letters. So I'd prefer an e-mail, thank you (if you want to draw me a picture, scan it and send it as a file attactment).