Sunday, October 11, 2009

My Laptop and Facebook

I do love my laptop.  I like the portability of it. I can take it anywhere in the house, out on the deck... and still be online.  I've enjoyed the social networking of Facebook and that's why I took this picture.  It's been fun to reconnect with old friends and family. But I never thought that fb would be the instrument to bring a couple of old Pen Pals back together again! When I was in the 4th grade, Mrs. Cottle, my favorite teacher of all time, held up an envelope which contained a letter from a girl in Texas, asking for someone to be her pen pal.  I quickly raised my hand and, because her name was "Jane Brown," and mine was Jayna Bryan...my teacher thought we were a match.  That was the beginning of a long friendship across the miles.  We met a couple of times over the years, and I even saw her married in the Salt Lake Temple.  Then, for some reason, we lost touch.  I could not find her anywere, and my letters were returned.  We had not communicated for probably 20 years. A couple of months ago Jane found me on facebook.