Remember the good old days of floral and parchment-themed professional backgrounds for your corporate emails? It only takes a few hours a week to craft just the right background, font, and text color to let my messages sing with a festive spring tone and every holiday. Now it's just black and white, single font.

Who really prefers "Dark Mode" over a perky pink with red text for Valentine's?! I don't believe the Internet has moved past pastels.

After HR complained about ADA concerns and legibility, I upgraded my signature line to only the highest-resolution headshots of me, my pets, and my grands. If I don't keep it in every single reply, how will my colleagues know when little Ellie loses a tooth or Barney gets a new collar?

The IT department used to complain about running out of server space or missing backup windows because of the size of my mailbox file. Now they're grousing about buying a higher cloud storage tier. I wish they'd keep their story straight.

As the kids say: "Sorry, not sorry". It's their problem if I store every email in my custom folder structure to avoid automatic deletion under the document retention policy. One day, I may need a copy of "Re: Re: Re: FW: Re: Re: Re: Jennie's Brithday uLnch 04/03/2017" with all the attachments. Team-building and culture ARE business-related!

Now the legal department is complaining that my (allegedly) excessive email storage creates legal exposure for the company somehow. Are they planning to take Janice's side about the who was and wasn't invited to to Bob's "work-iversary" happy hour? I'm ready to bring the receipts!

Anyway, I just wanted to share that I'm still a fan of a great email stationery. For those closest to me, reach out to my aol.com email address for the latest. I could use your feedback deciding whether to use wheat-colored text on a goldenrod backgourn or vice-versa.