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Letters to the Earth

April 22, 2023 By Carol

Dear Fellow Earthlings, Today I am sending out a challenge to write a letter to the Earth.  I will write one this week.  If you write yours and would like to share it, please send it to me at connect@writealetter.org and I will post it here. You may also wish to submit your letter to […]

Filed Under: Books, Great Finds, Handwriting, Letter Writing in the News, Projects for Kids, Special Occasions Tagged With: Anna Hope, Climate Crisis, Earth Day, Jo McInnes, Kay Michael, letters to the Earth, Naomi Wirthner

Letters to Self

April 17, 2023 By Carol

Dear Reader, Here is another “Guest Author” treat from Colette. Her Letters to Self  is such a thoughtful idea to fulfil her personal wish to continue receiving mail from foreign places -way into the future. She’s right, it’s brilliant! Ever since I learned how to write, I have had pen pals.  The French nuns at […]

Filed Under: Guest Author, Handwriting, Journaling, Pen pals, Stationery Tagged With: Chronicle Press, Colette, Convent school, French penpals, guest author, handwritten letters, Lea Redmond, letter writing, Letters to My Future Self, letters to self, National Letter Writing Month

Addie and Rebecca

February 27, 2023 By Carol

Addie and Rebecca were pen pals during the mid-19th century. They were free black women who navigated the turbulent times during America’s Reconstruction Era. Addie Brown, born in 1841, was orphaned early in life and as a result she joined the working class as a domestic servant. Five years older, Rebecca Primus was born in […]

Filed Under: Books, Great Finds, Handwriting, Letter Writing in the News, Pen pals Tagged With: 1854-1868, Addie Brown, America's Reconstruction Era, Beloved Sisters and Loving Friends, Elizabeth Correia, Farah Jasmine Griffin, Hartford, Rebecca Primus, Royal Oak

Song of Songs

February 7, 2023 By Carol

Dear Reader- Margaret Shepherd’s calligraphy show, “Song of Songs” just opened at Yale’s Divinity School last week. The back story of this event is a curious one, so I thought I’d share it with you…And, in this season of Valentines, it’s easy to talk about some love poetry! In the Spring of 2010, Adam Schwartz […]

Filed Under: Books, Handwriting, Letter Writing in the News, Special Occasions, Uncategorized Tagged With: Adam Schwartz, ancient love poems, Bible, David Friend, David Friend Hall, Margaret Shepherd, Paraclete Press, Peabody Museum of Natural History, Sarah Lawrence, Song of Solomon, Song of Songs, St. Botolph Club, The Art of the Handwritten Note, The Art of the Personal Letter, Valentine's Day, Yale Divinity School, Yale University

MLK Jr.’s Messages on Love

January 16, 2023 By Carol

  “I have decided to stick with love…Hate is too great a burden to bear.” “Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.” “Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend.” -MLK Jr.  

Filed Under: Handwriting, Holiday, Special Occasions Tagged With: love and hate, Martin Luther King Jr., Message on Love, mlk quotes

The 2nd Week in January

January 10, 2023 By Carol

Universal Letter Writing Week celebrates the art of communicating through letter writing.  It occurs each year on the second week of January.  Although this notice is a few days late, there is still plenty of time to participate by writing someone a letter. Perhaps there’s a thank you note leftover from the holidays that you […]

Filed Under: Great Finds, Handwriting, Letter Writing in the News, News clipping Tagged With: Dr. Bob Waldinger, Jancee Dunn, Jon Han, keepsake letter, Living Eulogy, Peggy Liu, thank you notes, The Good Life, The Happiness Challenge, Universal Letter Writing Week

1st Christmas Card (revisited)

December 24, 2022 By Carol

Before there were printed greeting cards, people sent handwritten messages to each other. In 1843, Henry Cole, a British civil servant and entrepreneur, commissioned John C. Horsley to design the above Christmas card. Sir Henry Cole (as he later became known) was looking for a way ordinary people could use the services of the newly […]

Filed Under: Greeting Cards, Handwriting, Holiday Tagged With: 1834 Poor Law, 1st Christmas Card, Charles Dickens, Christmas Carol, good samaritan, Hungry 40's, Industrial Revolution, John C. Horsley, Penny Post, Queen Victoria's England, Scrooge, Sir Henry Cole, workhou, Yuletide charity

“My Dear Friend”

December 19, 2022 By Carol

After her grandmother died in 2000, Rachael Doyle, a high school junior from Long Island, decided that she wanted to do something to lessen the loneliness for some seniors in a local nursing home. Rachael along with 2 volunteers went into the senior facility and offered the women there makeovers. It began with doing the […]

Filed Under: Great Finds, Handwriting, Holiday, Letter Writing in the News, Newsflash, Pen pals Tagged With: COVID-19, elder isolation, GlamourGals, Hamden Business Writes 100's of Letters, handwritten note, high school volunteers, holiday season loneliness, intergenerational connections, lockdown restrictions, makeovers and manicures, My Dear Friend program, New Haven Register, New Year's resolution, Rachael Doyle Boyens, sense of being loved, Valentine's Day

Writing Your Thanks

December 5, 2022 By Carol

Dear Reader,  In this season of generosity, please be sure to stir in time for some handwritten thank you notes. Sadly, technology has overshadowed this precious act of human courtesy.  Writing your thanks says so much more than the words alone.  When you take the time to acknowledge a kindness rendered, it touches the heart […]

Filed Under: Guest Author, Handwriting, Letter Writing in the News, Stationery Tagged With: David Sedaris, Elisabeth Egan, Happy Go Lucky, human courtesy, Keep writing, season of generosity, thank you notes, The New York Times, Vincent Tullo

Letters to Voters

November 13, 2022 By Carol

Dear Reader- Here we are days after the election and uncertainty still prevails.  If you feel like doing something, I have a suggestion: Write a letter. As you know, letters are my passion. So, I’ve signed up to write letters to voters for that special runoff election in Georgia’s senatorial race. VOTE FORWARD- began this […]

Filed Under: Handwriting, Letter Writing in the News, Special Occasions Tagged With: election uncertainty, pen to paper, Please Vote, Senatorial race in Georgia, Vote Forward, voter turnout, write a letter

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