My specialty: The love letter.

I've cultivated human contacts. Significant ones. Even with people I've never formally met face to face. In person. Some of 'em are marvelous. Amazing. We've written to each other. Attracted by words. Could be that we will never meet any other way. Yet I know 'em better than people I see and encounter virtually every day. That's the power of written language. Seems to me that a letter is a form of literature. Especially an exchange of letters. I write and receive letters that pulsate with life. Words become alive and meaningful. I hardly go a day without writing a love letter. Oh, so much better than writing a novel or a short story or a poem. I'm a writer. And my specialty is the love letter. --Jim Broede