send email widget?

hey all,

I'm interested in a widget that would be able to send email. I think this makes sense given the address book widget already there. Also, like many people, if I have Mail open, I have a tendency to check it too often. A send email widget would be perfect because it seriously minimizes the opening/closing, pressing cmd-n for for new mail process that I have to do right now to keep email checking to a minimum.

Does this exist? Is anyone working on this? Thanks

sps