Plus: I gave up on finding condolence cards, and this is my solution.
We’ve been friends for going on 40 years and first began socializing after college, when all of us were starting our careers, paying off loans and living on shoestring budgets.
If, for example, we celebrate with a cookout in someone’s yard, we all happily chip in for the groceries. But it is the deceit involved that makes it wrong. There is nothing bad about people deciding to go out together and pay their own way, or getting together for a cooperative meal, where each contributes food.: Is it considered necessary to write notes of sympathy about a death on cards specially designed for the purpose?
I will be interested in your thoughts. I can even imagine that you may have a suggestion on how I could comfortably change my practice.Dear Abby: We had no problem with our son’s fiancee. Now we learn she has a problem with us.Letters of condolence are serious letters that do not require printed embellishments of any kind. It is peculiar to think that a mass stamped expression — “Sympathy,” or in the case of letters of thanks, “Thank you” — is better than the personal, handwritten word.
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