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Hot Potato: How to Make Your Vote Count

September 5, 2020 By Carol

Originally, I wrote “Hot Potato’ for my Connecticut neighbors.  Then I realized, of course- EVERYONE NEEDS TO HOT POTATO THEIR BALLOT because of the serious problems the post office is having with delayed mail…   Hot Potato: How to Make Your Vote Count A recent headline shouts: “1 Million Primary Ballots Were Mailed Late.” (NYT- […]

Filed Under: Letter Writing in the News, Newsflash, Uncategorized Tagged With: 1 Million Primary Ballots Were Mailed Late, absentee ballot requests, Absentee ballots, allowable designee, Am I registered to vote?, COVID-19, Hot Potato, How to Make Your Vote Count, New York Times, Official ballot drop box, polling places, post office, voting by mail, Will You Have Enough Time to Vote by Mail in Your State?

Return to Sender

August 25, 2020 By Carol

In my 33 year experience as a letter carrier, postal management would generally find purpose in fixing things that weren’t broken. The resultant  chaos would throw workers off balance and erode productivity. Every new boss would try to “reinvent the wheel.”  Occasionally, a new manager would work with the employees, but that was a rarity. […]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: 1st Continental Congress, Benjamin Franklin, connect the colionies, Covid-19 pandemic, david Sirota, letter carrier, letter sorting machines, Louis DeJoy, mail sorting equipment, Mitch McConnell, national heritage, polygraph machine, Postmaster General, Return to Sender, The Goodfellas Scheme to Destroy the Post Office, Trump, undelivered perishables, USPS, wrecking ball

Look and Touch History

January 27, 2020 By Carol

Correction on previous post- “National Handwriting Day” and  John Hancock’s birthday is actually January 23rd (not the 26th).  Yet since I have your attention, allow me to offer the added bonus to “Look and Touch History with John Hancock’s Original Quill.”  This project was designed by middle-school student, Ken Ellis back in 2015. Master Ellis […]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Declaration of Independence, John Handcock's Original Quill, Ken Ellis, King George III, Look and Touch History, National Handwriting Day

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

Pat Yourself on the Back

January 1, 2020 By Carol

Filed Under: Handwriting, Holiday, Stationery, Uncategorized

Condolence mobile

April 27, 2019 By Carol

It’s been two months since my sister’s passing. Then, two days ago, the phone rang with the sad news that my teacher and mentor from college died on April 15th. Elaine Rapp was my all time favorite teacher. She was a Gestalt therapist, a large stone sculptor, and one of the founding minds behind Pratt […]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: card mobile, Condolences, Elaine Rapp, flame-kindler, Gestalt Therapy, Neuro-linguistic programming, Pratt Institute Art Therapy program, stone sculptor

“Betty Bonkers working on jet lag”

March 10, 2019 By Carol

My favorite younger sister, Andrea, died on February 22, 2019. It was sudden and unexpected with dubious circumstances. She had just come back from a dream vacation to Hawaii. Her last text to me said, “Betty Bonkers working on jet lag.” Next, I heard Andrea was dead. So many parts of this jigsaw puzzle will […]

Filed Under: Books, Content, Uncategorized Tagged With: Beth Macy, Chasing the Scream, Costa Rica, Crisis of Despair, death and families, Dopesick, grief, Hawaii, heroin, Johann Hari, massage therapist, opioid crisis, Oxycontin, PaperOwlArtists, Purdue Pharma, Sorry for your loss, sympathy cards, turtle totem

Summertime is for postcards

July 11, 2018 By Carol

“I still think that to receive a postcard in your mailbox is happiness.” Margaretta Magnusson Postcards are synonymous with Summer and fun. Friends and family leave for vacation. You wave goodbye and hear yourself say, “Send me a postcard.” Hopefully, they will. One way to be sure to get one is by signing up with […]

Filed Under: Main, MAKES SENSE, Pen pals, Postcards, Uncategorized Tagged With: foreign places, friendly message, Global Forever stamps, happiness, mailbox, Margareta Magnusson, postcards, Postcrossing, random people, send me a postcard, summertime, vacation, wave goodbye

A thank you letter from MLK

January 16, 2018 By Carol

What a treasure to find this draft for Mr. Hunter’s thank you letter. It speaks volumes in a few short lines about Martin Luther King Jr. who was definitely “his brother’s keeper.” Here he stands, hand-in-hand with the crowd in the midst of the March on Washington, 1963. Martin Luther King, Jr. would have turned 89 […]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Brothers keeper, Democracynow.org, March on Washington 1963, Martin Luther King Jr., Photo by Moneta Sleet Jr., The King Center

Universal Letter Writing Week 2018

January 15, 2018 By Carol

Universal Letter Writing Week begins today January 14th and will continue through till January 20th. Join forces with all the letter writers in the world to get your correspondence done. And what better way to start off the week than by tackling your thank you notes! The rule of thumb for expressing written gratitude is […]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: boost happiness, Bottom Line Personal, Dr. Denes, expressing gratitude, gift of acknowledgement, Kent State University, peanut butter, pen and paper, Steven Toepfer PhD, thank you notes, Universal Letter Writing Week 2018

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