December 25, 2013
A Prairie Home Companion honors home delivery
December 23,2013 Just about a week ago, Garrison Keillor sang this marvelous “Mailman Song,” on “A Prairie Home Companion.” Knowing how hard the letter carriers and clerks have worked these last few months, I feel buoyed by the sentiment expressed in this little dittie…Give a listen, click on this link- “http://minnesota.publicradio.org/www_publicradio/tools/media_player/syndicate.php?name=phc/2013/12/14/phc_20131214_128&starttime=00:07:37.0&endtime=00:10:00.0“
Write for Rights
December 9, 2013 Tomorrow, December 10th, is International Human Rights Day. Please join in for the biggest letter writing campaign in the world. Amnesty International is encouraging members and human rights supporters to write letters on behalf of 12 urgent individual cases. If millions of people write on the same cases, there can be a […]
Love this t-shirt
December 5, 2013… Here’s another great gift idea for the letter writers in your life- available from Northern Sun. I thoroughly enjoy this organic cotton shirt. And I wore it for my Letter Writing Event this past June. ___________________________________________________________________________________________________
Gift Ideas: Carol’s picks
November 29, 2013 One passionate letter writer I met told me that she always makes a gift of thank you notes. Isn’t that a WONDERFUL idea? One always has good reason to be grateful for some kindness. Perhaps you need to thank the person, people who cooked that delicious meal you enjoyed yesterday. Thank you […]
Veterans’ Day
November 11, 2013 For some odd reason, perhaps it’s a quirk in our human nature that we cannot co-exist without aggression and warfare. The tale is as old as human history. And to paraphrase Mark Twain: the only progress we’ve made is that we kill each other more efficiently! Unfortunately, there will always be soldiers […]
The Multifaceted Art of Writing Letters
September 16, 2013 Much has been written about the “Lost Art of Letter Writing and Handwriting.” Yes, it is rare to see a handwritten address in one’s daily mail. And, yes, cursive writing is disappearing from school curriculum. But is the art of writing letters really “lost,” like the Holy Grail, or gone the way […]
Call For Entries
September 16, 2013 Weren’t those winning envelopes awesome? And it all begins with just an ordinary envelope, add your imagination and skill, and who knows what work of art will develop… For those of you interested, the 2014 theme for The Graceful Envelope Contest is- The Superlative Letter “S“ “Create a Graceful Envelope by symbolizing […]
The 19th Annual Graceful Envelope Winners
August 12, 2013 I was considering a post on “The Art of Letter Writing” and then I received my latest issue of The Postal Record. Voila! Speaking of artistic letters, The Graceful Envelope Contest takes Mail Art to museum heights. This contest is sponsored by The National Association of Letter Carriers in conjunction with The […]
Why (writing) letters still matter
August 5, 2013 I have thought about this subject at length, and have written a variety of drafts to explain “Why letters still matter.” Basically, at the end of the day, when all of our gadgets have been shut off, we are still just human. Yep, we’re human beings with all those messy uncomfortable feelings […]
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