Mr Al Young Dot Com

This year was the year I was to send out a family newsletter. After enjoying many of your newsletters over the years, I now had the time and motivation to tackle a newsletter. It started out well. Writing the newsletter was not difficult. I enjoy it, and writing comes easy to me. It just took a little time, but I ran into some problems.

• My Newsletter was too long: I have heard that the best Christmas newsletters are short and to the point to keep the readers attention. One page is ideal. This was very hard for me to do. When it comes to speaking, I am very direct and to the point, state your business and move on. However, while I enjoy writing, I am still too wordy at times. It was a struggle for me to trim my words.
• Formating: After editing as much as possible to keep the newsletter brief, it was still too long, but I thought I could cut it in half if I could format it correctly. What a nightmare that was. The more I tried to format, the worse it looked. I’m starting to think Stan was right. Maybe a Mac is the way to go. At least than,, I could have Stan help me format it.

After some frustrating times trying to format, time was running out. So, we went to Plan B, which is our normal Plan A each year. Plan B is to look at thousands of pictures taken during the year, to try to find 1 decent picture of both kids. We actually found 2 this year, but they still were not that good. Ordered cards online from Costco, picked them up, and started sending them out. Or rather Christine did. But what was I going to do with the newsletter I spent so much time on?

Well, here it is on the blog. The good thing is by posting it here, we saved at least one tree if not two. Excuse my wordiness as it is my first attempt at a newsletter. I hope you and your families have Happy and Blessed Christmas.