Hi Carole, welcome. Glad to have you here.
One of our members, Andrys, posted this over on the Amazon Kindle FAQ (at the Amazon forum) the other day:
If you mean, have email sent to [you]@kindle.com, Leslie's right, as usual. There's no email straight to the Kindle.
But, as Leslie says, if you use gmail/googlemail, you can go to
http://m.gmail.com with your Kindle web browser and read your email and even reply to it, once you've logged in, though the latter can be a painfully slow process with that keyboard. It's buggy, in that when you press SEND, it says you can't connect with the server -- but your email actually has gone through successfully.
(I suppose this is better than it saying 'Sent' but it wasn't...)
Just an FYI.
L