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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 Happiness Challenge”

January 2, 2023 By Carol

  Happy New Year Dear Readers.  I must confess the challenge of this New Year’s moment has overwhelmed me. Much like the 2 faced Roman god Janus who starts off the year with Janu-ary, I don’t know if I’m coming or going. I am still writing holiday greetings, and the thought of jotting down my […]

Filed Under: Great Finds, Holiday, Letter Writing in the News, MAKES SENSE, Pen pals, Uncategorized Tagged With: Andres Kudacki/Associated Press, happiness, Harvard Study of Adult Development, Jancee Dunn, Janus the Roman god of beginnings, Lauren Jackson, New Year's Eve 2022, New York Times The Morning, Roseann Manley, The Good Life by Dr. Robert Waldinger, Times Square-NYC

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

Reclaiming normal

December 13, 2021 By Carol

Dear Reader– Here we are at the end of another year devastated by COVID and the variants. People are emotionally frayed, hair-trigger impatient, and more than slightly nuts. Kids are caught in the middle between what is safe, and what adults believe. Their education and social development are spotty and disrupted.  Supply chains are missing […]

Filed Under: Greeting Cards, Holiday, Special Occasions Tagged With: 2021, climate catastrophe, COVID and the variants, depression, dystopia, Florence Griswold Museum, mental illness, quitting their jobs, reclaim normal, slightly nuts, suicide, upside down tree

Universal Letter Writing Week 2021

January 10, 2021 By Carol

Looking forward, looking back -that’s Janus. January is named after Janus, the Roman god with two faces, each looking in the opposite direction. He heralds new beginnings. What a perfect symbol for a new year and some fresh starts. We’ve done plenty of looking back.  So, what’s ahead? How are those resolutions going? Laurie Santos, […]

Filed Under: Handwriting, Holiday, Letter Writing in the News, Pen pals, Projects for Kids, Stationery Tagged With: AARP, compassion, connections, Covid, Emerson Weber, Feeling Lonely? Write a leter to a perfect stranger, fresh starts, Glamor, gratitude, homeschooling, Hugh Weber, Janus the Roman god of beginnings, kindness, Lauren Maxwell, Laurie Santos, letter writing kit for kids, LEX, lockdowns, loneliness and isolation, love for our Seniors, Marie Zedig Designs, New Year Resolutions, pandemic, Pen Pals Share the Joy of Letter Writing, Penpalozza, resolutions, thank you notes, the guardian, The Happiness Lab, The Letter Exchange, Universal Letter Writing Week

COVID Kindness

December 25, 2020 By Carol

  Dear Reader, Let me start by admitting that I am as lost as anyone after this “dumpster fire” of a year. I’ve often pictured Dorothy from the Wizard of Oz in the tornado funnel watching fragments of what-used-to-be swirl about, or Anne Frank, huddled in the attic with her family, hiding to save their […]

Filed Under: Holiday, Letter Writing in the News, Special Occasions Tagged With: Anne Frank, charity and volunteering, Dorothy of the Wizard of Oz, Dove chocolates, dumpster fire, emilymcdowel.com, happiness, Inspire Kindness, inspirekindness.com, Katherine Good, kindness, Laurie Santos, letter carriers, letter writing, Molly B. Kansas, practicing kindness during the coronavirus, secret Santa, thank you notes, The Happiness Lab podcast, The Science of Well Being, vulnerable and numb, Yale University

Pat Yourself on the Back

January 1, 2020 By Carol

Filed Under: Handwriting, Holiday, Stationery, Uncategorized

footsteps towards the Victory

November 11, 2019 By Carol

Veterans’ Day 2019 In honor of Veterans’ Day, I’d like to share this old postcard with you. A friend sent this French postcard which depicts the WWI Allied Forces. The young maid appears to be telling a surviving soldier of the path towards victory that ended the war in 1918. The writing on the back […]

Filed Under: Handwriting, Holiday, Letter Writing in the News, Stationery Tagged With: 1943, Allied Forces, Veterans'Day, wartime, writing paper, WWI

Letters to the Dead

October 25, 2019 By Carol

“It gets very lonely sometimes. No one talks to me anymore.” – Andy   As many of you know, my youngest sister died early this year of a drug overdose. Andy, short for Andrea, was my favorite family member. She was quite skilled at telling you what she felt you wanted to hear. Andy was […]

Filed Under: Holiday, Letter Writing in the News, MAKES SENSE, Special Occasions Tagged With: All Saints Day, All Souls Day, automatic writing, Cheshire Historical Society, Death Cafe, Halloween, John Donne, Kim Stacey, Letters mingle souls, Letters to the Dead, On the Wings of Grief, Sandy Ireton, Spirits Alive, turtles, veil between the worlds

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