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Valentines!

February 12, 2018 By Carol

With only a few days to go, we need to make a plan for Valentines Day. Flowers, chocolates, diamonds? Well, here’s a simpler idea- how about a love letter? Young or old, everyone appreciates them. And I’m talking about the real deal with pen to paper. Emails don’t quite do it. Even the millennials prefer […]

Filed Under: Handwriting, Holiday, Special Occasions Tagged With: Be sincere, Fernand Le Quesne, love letters, Margaret Shepherd, Real Love, Sharon Salzberg, The Art of the Personal Letter, The Pilllar Box-A letter to Daddy, Valentine's Day, warts and all, Women's Day Magazine

Love Letters on Broadway

September 21, 2014 By Carol

September 21, 2014 What a joy it is to discover A.R. Gurney’s play: “Love Letters” is being performed on Broadway, starring Mia Farrow and Brian Dennehy. It opened just last Thursday and will feature a rotating cast of stars. I saw this play performed at The James Blackstone Memorial Library back in 2011, and have been […]

Filed Under: Newsflash Tagged With: A.R.Gurney, Andy and Melissa, Brian Dennehey, Broadway, James Blackstone Memorial Library, letter writing, love letters, love story in letters, Mia Farrow, pen to paper

Tips for Writing Love Letters

February 3, 2014 By Carol

Tips for Writing Love Letters Create atmosphere- To focus your attention on the person you are writing to, eliminate distractions. Give yourself the space to discover how you feel. Bring them to mind with a photograph or some memento, and, then have a conversation with them on the page. Be natural. Content- Think about what […]

Filed Under: Letter Writing Workshops Tagged With: appreciation, atmosphere, be natural, commands attention, email, future generations, get it right, gift of time, handwriting, have patience, I love you, keepsake, love letters, Margaret Shepherd, personal history, personal style, so rare, Stephen Levine, tips for writing love letters, Valentine's Day, write drafts

Why (writing) letters still matter

August 5, 2013 By Carol

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 […]

Filed Under: Content, Handwriting Tagged With: desire to connect, exclusivity, gift of time, globally, grief, handwritten expression, honor a friend, Human contact, human is precious, human touch, impersonal, joy, just human, letters are magic, letters still matter, love, love letters, real letters, real mail, sadness, sameness, special to me, uncomfortable feelings, write a letter

Juicy Gossip & other tidbits…

February 17, 2013 By Carol

__________________________________________________________________________________________________________ February 17, 2013…This has been a very tough week.  All my best intentions were sidetracked due to the aftermath of last week’s blizzard.  The roads around New Haven were narrow making parking nearly impossible.  Delivering the mail under such conditions was painstaking, sidewalks were not clear and I had to weave in and out […]

Filed Under: Juicy Gossip Tagged With: Ben Franklin, first class letters, goods news, hands on, Juicy Gossip, last week's blizzard, legislators, Letters mingles Souls, love letters, mail carrier of the year, New Haven local color, Postmaster General Donahoe, red and pink envelopes, Saturday delivery, self-fulfilling prophesy, Senators and Representatives, Valentine's Day, writing letters

“Letters from the Heart”

February 20, 2012 By Carol

February 20, 2012 With Valentine’s Day behind us,  I’d like to expand the energy and talk about “Letters from the Heart.” These could be love letters, letters of appreciation, affection,  encouragement, gratitude, friendship, and even sympathy…Now, we can discuss a connection mindset without the backdrop of a commercially motivated holiday. “Letters from the Heart”  are always love […]

Filed Under: Main Tagged With: a friend in need, appropiate anytime, commitment, committed friend, connections, contentment, conversational style, encouragement, friendship, gift of time, gratitude, grief, harbors no ill will, have fun, heals separations, John and Abigail Adams, jokes, Kathy Tyler & Joy Drake, keepsake, letters from the heart, love, love letters, Margaret Shepherd, milestones, poems, Robert W. Bly, separations, serenity, sympathy, The Art of the Handwritten Note, The Original Angel Cards Book, Valentine's Day, Webster's New World Letter Writing Handbook, writing a letter

“I feel like a true lover when I’m writing you.”

February 5, 2012 By Carol

February 5, 2012 …..If you need any incentive to inspire you to get going on those Valentines, here it is- Love Letters is a play celebrating a love story which takes place almost exclusively with pen and paper. Love Letters also offers the most eloquent argument, I have ever read, for the value of good old fashioned […]

Filed Under: Handwriting Tagged With: A.R.Gurney, across the distance, Christmas cards, eloquent argument, essays, everything takes shape, favorite passage, I love to write, ideal son, letter writing, love letters, love story, notes to friends, pen and paper, penmanship, read me today, true lover, true scholar, until you die, Valentines, writing, writing things down

Heartfelt Expressions

September 10, 2011 By Carol

September 10, 2011 As the anniversary of 9/11/01 approaches, I recall the spontaneous shrines the families and friends of the victims erected to honor their loved ones and give expression to their enormous grief.  Many images contained handwritten notes with drawings and photos.  Many were love letters, thank you notes, and goodbyes.  Some wrote prayers for hope and courage. […]

Filed Under: Main Tagged With: 9/11 anniversary, goodbyes, heartfelt expressions, love letters, Margaret Shepherd, Martha Cooper, Near St. Paul's Chapel, Race for the Sky Songs for New York & 9/11, spontaneous shrines, thank you notes, The Art of the Handwritten Note

Letters as history

August 28, 2011 By Carol

August 28, 2011 Abagail and John Adams wrote over 1200 letters to each other over the course of 60 years- from their 6 year long courtship till John’s retirement from politics. These letters give us a very personal history of a marriage enduring alongside America’s revolutionary  beginnings.  What a marvelous resource these intimate letters are […]

Filed Under: Main Tagged With: 100 years, America's revolutionary beginnings, autobiography, burning letters & journals, Cokie Roberts, First Family Abagail & John Adams, George Washington, handwriting, John & Abagail Adams, Joseph J. Ellis, Ladies of Liberty, letters as history, life has value, love letters, Mark Twain, Martha Washington, poetry, To save or not to save?, uniqueness

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