Welcome to Musing Interruptus. Thank you for clicking, and thank you for listening. Writers get hired to do all sorts of interesting things. The first time I was hired to write, I was in high school. I wrote love letters. Needless to say, everything started out well, the objective was achieved, I hit that target, right between the eyes… but then something went wrong. Call it human error or human nature. The person who hired me let the cat out of the bag. Everything fell through after that. Including our friendship. Not a promising future as a hired-writer there. However, there are things you just can’t seem to shake. For me, writing has been one of them. I love writing letters. At my last job, that was one of my favorite activities. I called it: trashcan diplomacy. I would write letters expressin ...