Don’t break the kitten’s heart, people!
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Just a reminder for my Arkie readers that the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette Voices page needs your letters. We get slow periods every few months, but this has been the slowest of any I can remember since I started in the opinion section. I may start to take it personally.
Do you have a sweet story to tell (to be honest, good Samaritan stories and the like are some of my favorites), a funny anecdote, or a diatribe about the evils of compromise/tribalism/the designated hitter rule/[insert your gripe here]? Tell me about it in 300 words or fewer, and send it by mail to Voices, P.O. Box 2221, Little Rock, Ark. 72203; by email to voices@arkansasonline.com; or through our Voices form. You can also fax it to (501) 372-4765 (be sure to mark it to the attention of Voices) … ya know, if you still have one of those things … didn’t they go out in the 2oth century? Oh, no, that was eight-track tapes and the knowledge that harem pants are not attractive on most people. Sorry.
Keep it clean, don’t personally attack other letter-writers, and ditch anything that should be aired in a courtroom or discussed with police.
If you’ve already been published on the Voices page in the past 30 days, spread the word to friends, family, co-workers, that guy you say hi to when getting coffee in the morning, the scruffy man in the tinfoil hat … on second thought, scratch that one. Your reward? Me shutting up for a while about writing letters to the editor.
No need to get all fancy with a quill. But please, if you handwrite your letter, it must be legible to sober people who aren’t related to you.
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Serenity is a fuzzy belly 
I spend so much time on a keyboard, my handwriting has deteriorated to an undecipherable scrawl. And it wasn’t very good to start with. Sloppy and irregular (like a man’s writing, some said).
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I’ve got one letter-writer whose scrawl is probably worse. Since we lost the department assistant who actually could read his writing, I haven’t been able to run his letters. I’m pretty sure yours is more legible. 😉
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If you really want to see some indecipherable writing, you should try deciphering doctor’s medication orders and I am speaking from experience. I am so glad that the hospital where I work has switched to a system where the doctors are able to enter all of their orders directly into the computer.
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Sometimes I felt as if I needed a degree in cryptography so I could figure out what the doctor was trying to order for the patient. However, to be fair, if I had to write for sixteen hours a day every day of the week, my writing would probably be as difficult to read as a doctor’s.
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Mine is pretty horrible when I’m tired. And sometimes when I’m not.
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I’ve seen bad and good. Some people really do need to embrace technology. 📝💻
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Brenda don’t take it personally if this ex-sailor doesn’t write a letter which is clean enough to be published in the Democrat-Gazette. Just go ahead, take it, and keep it.
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