Long stories deserve long responses

Posted on September 5th, 2006 by Sacha Chua

I deserved that public finger-wagging for my two-line reply to one of my sister's long stories. Which reminds me, I still have a stack of letters and cards to go through. In the future, I should never let myself get so busy that I flub my personal correspondence.

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