If you know me well, then you probably know that both my parents passed away in 2009. For years leading up to their rather sudden passing, my brothers and I tried without success to get them to embrace the age of technology and get a computer. They wouldn't. We wanted them to send and receive email. They wouldn't. But here's something I learned as I recently sorted through their things: my old-fashioned, tech-resistent parents still wrote letters. And because they wrote letters, they received letters back. I read things about my parents after their deaths that I would never have known if they had communicated, like the rest of us, through email. Don't get me wrong; I love email as much as the next girl. But there is something fleeting about it that was all the more apparent as I read letters from friends and family to my parents. Fixation's holiday gift this year is a set of custom-designed greeting cards we're calling "Not The Usual Holidays Holiday Cards." They're greetings for holidays that were never elevated to celebrated card-giving occasions. Our hope is to prompt one-to-one communication at times this year when no one particularly expects it. Like Groundhog Day or Arbor Day for example. Write a note, throw on a stamp and surprise someone. We promise that no one will hit "delete."

Happy New Year!