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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

Something to remember you by

April 12, 2018 By Carol

In today’s NY Times, Steven Petrow laments the further reduction of our humanity with credit card companies’ elimination of an actual signature. It’s a great article. I am right there with the author as he clutches the multi-sensory experience of reading his Grandma’s letters. I worry about how much we are mindlessly, willingly sacrifice to […]

Filed Under: Handwriting, Letter Writing in the News Tagged With: balance, Benjamin Franklin, civics, Common Core Standards, convenience, critical thinking, geography, Goggle, Grandma's letters, individuality, Liberty, New York Times, postcard, reclaim your attention, retain your signature, Safety, Steven Petrow, wikiquote.org

Happy New Year

January 14, 2013 By Carol

January 14, 2013 “We turn not older with years, but new every day.” Emily Dickinson A New Year , thank heavens!  Already, I’ve noticed changes.  For one, I’ve asserted myself at the Post Office to reclaim a more balanced work life. The uncertainty of  daily forced overtime  was exhausting and numbing.  My Doctor and the Union helped pull me out […]

Filed Under: Holiday Tagged With: balance, balanced work life, Emily Dickinson, Happy New Year, resolution

Full Attention

October 29, 2012 By Carol

October 29, 2012 __________________________________________________________________________________________ A recent review in THE WEEK asks this question: “Facebook: Are social media making us lonely?” Stephen Marche in The Atlantic states: “Thanks to texting, Facebook, Google+, and Twitter, Americans now live in a “web of connection” in which we can reach everyone we know in just a fraction of a […]

Filed Under: Main Tagged With: "web of connection", Alone Together, balance, balance in the wired world, connectivity, depression, Facebook break, Facebook depression, Google+, handwriting, illusion of companionship, Internet Use Disorder, iPhone, Kelly McGonigal, loneliness, Nature, postcard, psychosis, retouch photos, seltzergoods.com, Sherry Turkle, social media, Soren Gordhamer, squirt of dopamine, Stamford University, status updates, Stephen Marche, texting holiday, texting tweeting, The Atlantic, The New York Times, The Observer(U.K.), The Week, Tony Dokoupil, Tracey McVeigh, voice-to-voice phone call, Wisdom 2.0

The 4th of July Newsletter

July 4, 2011 By Carol

The 4th of July, 2011 Happy Birthday America!!!   235 years old. That’s a lot of candles! This holiday also marks the one year anniversary of writealetter.org.  After a bumpy start, it all seemed to make sense beginning last July.  I’d like to use this opportunity to thank you for your continued support.  I want to thank all […]

Filed Under: Holiday Tagged With: activity page, balance, Cavallini.com, celebrity, cheerleader, civilized communication, comments, courteous communication, forums, Gadgets, Greeting cards, guidelines, handwriting help, journals, Keep Writitng, letters, Mail Art, Margaret Shepherd, military, Nan J. Barchowsky, pen friends, postcard, Postmaster General Donahoe, raffle, real mail, right words, servicemen and women, Slow Writing, subscribers, The Letter Exchange, website

New Year’s Resolution: BALANCE gadgets with handwriting!

December 31, 2010 By Carol

Are you feeling overwhelmed with gadgets…

Filed Under: Handwriting Tagged With: art-form, balance, better thought out, cellphones, Fresh Air, Gadgets, goals for 2011, gratitiude journal, guaranteed results, handwriting help, humaness, journals, Margaret Shepherd, New Year's Resolutions, NPR, overwhelmed with gadgets, Peggy Jo Ackley, pen pal, skimming, slows you down, takes practice, Terry Gross, texting, thank you notes, The Price Of Putting Your Brain On Computers, write by hand

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