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April 8, 2022 By Carol

Dear Reader- Once again, I am grateful to Donovan Beeson for her  infinite postal enthusiasm.  She reminds us that April is National Letter Writing Month, and she has created labels galore to help us celebrate. I thought you might be inspired by the infectious energy of her creations. Here’s what she has to say about […]

Filed Under: Guest Author, Handwriting, Letter Writing in the News, Newsflash, Special Occasions Tagged With: "Selvage", April, Donovan Beeson, National Letter Writing Month, Patreon, Postcards to Swing States, Vote Forward

Penmanship revisited

February 12, 2022 By Carol

Betsy Lewin, Mushy

Hello Reader,  Valentine’s Day always signals a good reason to put your pen to paper.  And having your message clear and legible will help the recipient know who is playing Cupid. Did you know? In former times, when a man was wooing a young lady, the quality of his penmanship determined whether he even had […]

Filed Under: Books, Great Finds, Greeting Cards, Handwriting, Special Occasions Tagged With: 100 Things We've Lost to the Internet, artform, Betsy Lewin, Cupid, flourishes, handwriting, improving your handwriting, keep cursive alive, letterforms consistent, Lynda Graham- Barber, Mushy- The Complete Book of Valentine Words, Pamela Paul, penmanship, sterile uniformity, support your humanity, Valentine's Day, Write this down carefully

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

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

The Big Send

October 20, 2020 By Carol

Last Saturday was the “Big Send.” That was the day all the Vote Forward handwritten, Get-Out-The-Vote letters went into the mail. The campaign’s original goal of 10 million letters was quickly reached, so another 5 million was added on. I wrote 120 letters to voters in Minnesota, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Texas. I hand printed why […]

Filed Under: Handwriting, Letter Writing in the News, Special Occasions Tagged With: 15 million letters, GOTV, handwritten letters, personal touch, swingleft, The Big Sned, US Postal Service, Vote, Vote Forward, vote.org

Making News

June 25, 2020 By Carol

Randall Beach writes: Sending out your thoughts during this pandemic June 23, 2020 Updated: June 24, 2020 11:34 a.m. Carol Christmas of Hamden, who has a card-writing service, offers advice on writing condolence cards in this time of many deaths from COVID-19.  Photo: Peter Hvizdak / Hearst Connecticut Media Carol Christmas sat on her front porch in […]

Filed Under: Guest Author, Handwriting, Letter Writing in the News, News clipping, Post Office News, Special Occasions, The Write Way Tagged With: condolence notes, Covid-19 pandemic, death-denying culture, gift of time, grief-stricken, handwriting, Hearst Connecticut Media, Margaret Shepherd, Peter Hvizdak, Randall Beach, The Art of the Personal Letter: A Guide to Connecting Through the Written Word, The New Haven Register, the write way

The “Quarantine Challenge”

March 30, 2020 By Carol

  How are you managing to make sense of this COVID-19 global pandemic? I confess, I haven’t written a single letter in a long time. I feel so bummed-out by the coronavirus situation, the different government responses to it, the massive layoffs, and the resultant, ever-increasing world-wide death toll. I am overwhelmed AND often paralyzed […]

Filed Under: Great Finds, Guest Author, Journaling, Newsflash, Special Occasions Tagged With: balance, calm, Catherine Price, chaos, checking the news, community, coronavirus, COVID-19, global pandemic, How to Break Up with Your Phone, letter writing, panic mode, pen in hand, Screen Life/Balance, social distancing, The Quarantine Challenge, world-wide death toll

Penmanship Revisited

January 26, 2020 By Carol

Today is John Hancock’s birthday. Let’s celebrate by talking about penmanship. Last month a friend sent me an article featuring a business with robots writing thank you notes. Human handwriting is being mimicked, complete with smudges. “Grrrrr,” I say.  We’ve come to that? Everything has become so fake. To counteract that robot story, a current […]

Filed Under: Handwriting, Special Occasions, Uncategorized Tagged With: Brenna Jordan, calligraphy, Coca Cola, Ford's logo, handwriting revisited, John Hancock, Kindle, Megan Markle, Michael Sull, Nook, penmanship, Spencerian penmanship, The Art of Cursive Penmanship, The Lost Art of Handwriting, the postmans knock, wedding invitations

25 Years of Graceful Envelopes

November 24, 2019 By Carol

At last, here’s some “eye candy”- the 2019 Graceful Envelope Contest Winners with their Put Your Stamp On It  masterpieces. There is no question, The Graceful Envelope Contest elevates “mail art” to museum quality levels. Every year, since 1994, the Washington Calligraphers’ Guild and the National Association of Letter Carriers team up to sponsor the  […]

Filed Under: Handwriting, Letter Writing in the News, News clipping, Newsflash, Post Office News, Special Occasions, Stationery Tagged With: 25 years of Graceful Envelopes, calligraphy, eye candy, Graceful Envelope Contest, Linae Frei of Janesville WI, Lisa Leong-Tsang of Bellevue WA, Mail Art, NALC, National Association of Letter Carriers, Put Your Stamp On It, Sally Penley of Olympia WA, Scripsit, Seeing, Seeing Double, Shari Jobst of Aberdeen WA, Sherri A. Trial of Carlisle PA, The Washington Calligraphers Guild, Tori Bell of Tacoma WA

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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