Today, I received a fun and completely unexpected surprise in the mail. My mom had mailed me a baseball signed by an American League umpire from the early 1980s.

What was even better was the note inside. Not so much what it said, but how it was said. I could see the style of an aspiring cookie blogger in that note (spoiler, it’s me). The conversational train of thought style. The use of parentheses. An approach to dialog that I replicate daily. A note that made me smile.