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 […]
My Dear Friend Valentine Campaign
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 […]
National Handwriting Day
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 […]
Christmas Card History
Hit replay to start: “World’s First Christmas Card.”
Write it down
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 […]
Three Centuries of Valentines
Three Centuries of Valentines Offer 12,000 Ways to Say ‘I Love You’ -The New York Times By Eve M. Kahn Feb. 13, 2018 Paper Valentines spanning three centuries of optimism about romance have been delivered to the Huntington Library, Art Collections and Botanical Gardens in San Marino, Calif. The collection of about 12,000 cards was assembled […]
“The Happiness Challenge”
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 […]
1st Christmas Card (revisited)
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 […]
“My Dear Friend”
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 […]
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