An Open Letter to People Who Still Write Open Letters
To Whom It May Concern,
I feel that it is my sad duty to inform the public that the open letter is dead. It is with no joy that I make this announcement but one I feel compelled to give as a, somewhat, informed citizen.
No longer will our carefully crafted communiques and alliterations be read when used to inform the public about the need to lower a speed limit on the main thoroughfare through our beloved township.
No longer will our rambling sentences continue without regard for punctuation or proper grammar or style; sentences that go on in the hope that a semicolon is used correctly when, perhaps, a period should have been used instead.
No longer will we be able to browbeat an uninterested public with three sentences in a row that pose as paragraphs.
Like the last of the dodo birds our forced similes have been bludgeoned into obscurity by the relentless affront of technology. To read more just click through to An Open Letter to People Who Still Write Open Letters on Medium!
About the Author
derekbremer Prior to his life as a stay at home father Derek spent more than a decade performing public relations and marketing functions for financial consulting firms and found the job to be precisely as exciting as it sounds. When not tending to his wife or daughter Derek enjoys subjecting the public to his unique take on fatherhood, travel and animal husbandry. He has been published in Scary Mommy, Sammiches and Psych Meds, The Good Men Project, HowToBeADad, Red Tricycle, RAZED, HPP and the Anthology "It's Really Ten Months Special Delivery: A Collection of Stories from Girth to Birth.
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