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February 8, 2025 By Carol

Dear Reader,  Valentine’s Day is just one week away. So much is going on, it is easy to lose track.  Are you having difficulty keeping up? I am. Can you think about someone or two who could use a little love? …Just about everyone you meet, right? “Time goes by so fast, people go in […]

Filed Under: Greeting Cards, Holiday, Special Occasions Tagged With: Cheers (TV Show), Glamour Gals Foundation, Masala Cards, My Dear Friend, Todd Smith-flea notes, Valentine's Day

The Year of the Snake 2025

January 29, 2025 By Carol

Happy Chinese New Year, dear Reader. The Snake is this year’s featured animal. Shy, cautious, mysterious and fluid. Snake has the ability to transform as new growth forces the shedding of the old skin.  Intelligence and adaptability are other noteworthy qualities. Snake can be cool and aloof. In Nature, snakes are introverted. They generally won’t […]

Filed Under: Holiday, Special Occasions Tagged With: Ancient Palestinian Genesis story, Joseph Campbell, Michelangelo Garden of Eden, paradise, Primitive Mythology-The Masks of God, Thierry Chow Hong Kong feng shui consultant, Vatican City Rome, Year of the Snake

Day #4

January 15, 2025 By Carol

  Martin Luther King, Jr. was born in Atlanta, Georgia on January 15, 1929. A rousing orator, pastor, and the chief spokesman for non-violent civil disobedience in the Civil Rights Movement during the 1950’s and 60’s. He was an outstanding leader for racial equality. He embraced the poor, both black and white. He was a […]

Filed Under: Handwriting, Holiday, Special Occasions Tagged With: Civil Rights Movement, higher angels, Martin Luther King Jr.

ready, set…GO!

January 12, 2025 By Carol

Day #1-    Hello Dear Reader, Universal Letter Writing Week begins today. YAY! Here I am ready to get started. Won’t you pick up your pen and join me. The goal is one letter a day for 7 days…However, it works for you. See you tomorrow. Happy letter writing, Carol _____________________________________________________   Help LA wildfires: […]

Filed Under: Handwriting, Holiday, Pen pals, Special Occasions Tagged With: Universal Letter Writing Week

Juneteenth…

June 24, 2024 By Carol

  Dear Reader,  Since the news of freedom was slow to reach the farthest corners of Texas, I feel OK posting this a few days later.  Lincoln had signed the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863. It took two years for the federal troops to reach Galveston, Texas to tell those enslaved there that they were freed. […]

Filed Under: Holiday, Special Occasions Tagged With: "Moses", Emancipation Proclamation, Harriet Tubman, Juneteenth, Linda Mickens

Gemstone Valentines

February 14, 2024 By Carol

Happy Valentine’s Day, dear Reader. I hope that you will receive many, many red envelopes in your mailbox, and/or- you will feel appreciated in all the ways love is expressed to you today. Now, I want to introduce you to Donovan Beeson. She is the artist who designed these Gemstone Valentines. To say that she […]

Filed Under: Great Finds, Holiday Tagged With: "Selvage", artistamp, Donovan Beeson, Gemstone Valentines, Happy Valentine's Day, Patreon, perforator

My Dear Friend Valentine Campaign

February 5, 2024 By Carol

Dear Reader, Once again, The Glamour Gals Foundation is determined to generate smiles among isolated seniors in care homes. This is a great campaign. I apologize for this late posting. The deadline to send a card is this Friday, February 9th. So if you sign on quickly, you’ll be assigned a name to send a […]

Filed Under: Great Finds, Holiday, letters open doors Tagged With: Dr. Barbara Fredrickson, eudaimonic happiness, Glamour Gals Foundation, My Dear Friend campaign, Valentine's Day

National Handwriting Day

January 23, 2024 By Carol

Dear Reader…Just days after a week of letter writing, now we spotlight “National Handwriting Day.” January 23rd is the day set aside annually to celebrate handwriting. Isn’t it great that both letter writing and handwriting are features of early January along with new beginnings and resolutions? Maybe there’s a hidden nudge for us to handwrite […]

Filed Under: Handwriting, Holiday, Letter Writing in the News Tagged With: calligraphy, Common Core Standards, cursive handwriting, Margaret Shepherd, National Handwriting Day, Paco Yao, Quire Publishing BV, Randy Pausch, The Constitution, The Declaration of Independence, wikihow.life

Christmas Card History

December 20, 2023 By Carol

Hit replay to start: “World’s First Christmas Card.”

Filed Under: Greeting Cards, Holiday, Special Occasions Tagged With: A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens, Henry Cole, holiday greetings, John Horsley, Penny Post, Queen Victoria, The Postal Museum

Write it down

November 1, 2023 By Carol

Happy Halloween Dear Reader. To honor this holiday, let’s take a walk in the graveyard. Memento mori. Last week, I attended Richard Friswell’s fascinating library lecture, “Graven Images, Colonial New England Gravestones as Art and History.” As he explained, the imagery on the gravestones directly correlated to the early settlers’ relationship with Death. Samuel and Lydia […]

Filed Under: Holiday Tagged With: Cherub, Colonial New England Gravestones as Art and History, death, Graven Images, Halloween, Memento Mori, Richard Friswell, Urn and Willow Tree, winged skull, writing a will

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