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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

In Praise of Holiday Greeting Cards

December 26, 2016 By Carol

December 26, 2016 These last week weeks, I would discover large stacks of cards at individual mailboxes, waiting for me to pick up for mailing. I love to see folks still sending cards by mail. The fact that people are still communicating on paper is key.  A personalized card is a keepsake. So why do […]

Filed Under: Greeting Cards, Holiday, Main, Postcards Tagged With: American Holiday Postcards, camera phones, Chris Wu, community, Daniel Gifford, George Mason University, holiday greeting cards, keepsakes, Louise Prang, millennials, networks, NPR, On Point, Online Paper Culture, postcards, social media, Tom Ashbrook

Merry Christmas in July!

August 5, 2012 By Carol

August 5, 2012 It’s Summertime- Send a Postcard! Surprise a friend, relative, or send one to yourself just for fun. Postcards provide a charming way to stay connected. They are so much better than a facebook post because they are personal and they were written just for you. Postcards are quick and exciting to send […]

Filed Under: Postcards Tagged With: charming, just for you, pen friends, postcards, quick, staycation, summertime, surprise a friend

Kids’ Page

February 1, 2012 By Carol

February 1, 2012 _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Parker is a 7 year old who has a pen pal.  I am so thrilled that she is WRITING LETTERS and that she is willing to share her experience with us!!! _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ I just heard about Liam’s Valentine’s Day Project. Liam is in kindergarten and his class would like to receive […]

Filed Under: Kids' Project Tagged With: around the world, Donna Dinwiddie, kindergarten, Liam's Valentine's Day Project, Parker, pen pals, postcards, Rosemont Forest Elementary School, Virginia, Virginia Beach

a First Class letter is a bargain!

November 4, 2011 By Carol

November 4, 2011 Carol “c.j.” Petersen wrote the following article and has graciously given me permission to reprint it here.  c.j. is a treasure of a pen friend, an artist, photographer, writer, and all around wise woman.  I am ever-so-grateful to have discovered her through our  world of letters. _______________________________________________________________________________________ We all complain when postal rates go […]

Filed Under: Guest Author Tagged With: $.44, anticipation, c.j. Petersen, Carol Petersen, cell phone, Civil War commemoratives, distinctive handwriting, e-mail, First Class letter, Gregory Peck stamp, Intelligencer Journal/Lancaster New Era, Kansas Statehoods, Lancaster County, mail carriers, Mother's Day, Owney the Postal Dog, Phillies', post office, postcards, Ronald Reagan stamps, servicemen and women, stamp collector, texting, U.S.Postal Service

“Tango on the beach”

July 24, 2011 By Carol

July 24, 2011 Postcards were also the emails of their day The early 20th-century postal service. Picture postcard of ‘Tango on the beach’ in Atlantic City, New Jersey, from circa 1910-17  Photo: LCDM Universal History Archive/Getty Images ________________________________________________________________________________________________ Reference: July 7, 2011 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/letters/8621333/Postcards-were-also-the-emails-of-their-day.html Article discovered by-  Adam B. Schwartz

Filed Under: Postcards Tagged With: Adam B. Schwartz, Atlantic City, emails of their day, Getty Images, New Jersey, postcards, Tango on the Beach, Telegragh.co.uk, Universal History Archive

Projects for Kids!

July 10, 2011 By Carol

July 10, 2011 Kids ARE the future! If the art of the handwritten letter is to have any longevity, we must enlist and teach our children how to write letters. Summertime is the perfect time to begin to cultivate this skill.  One easy way to get started, as my friend’s daughter, Hailie suggests is to […]

Filed Under: Postcards Tagged With: fun, handwritten letters, Kids are the future, pen friend, postcards, postcrossing.com, summertime, swap-bot.com, writing skills

Slow Writing

June 27, 2011 By Carol

June 27, 2011 Today’s youth are growing up using the computer.  They are trained to print in the early grades and then “keyboarding” comes along by maybe the third grade. Cursive script is not compulsory, perhaps it is not even offered.   To describe the joys of letter writing to the current culture, one might as […]

Filed Under: Handwriting Tagged With: carpal tunnel, counterculture, cursive script, email, Facebook, haste makes waste, impatience, impress a friend, instant gratification, instant messaging, keyboarding, multitasking, obligatory response, postcards, printing, rebellion, reclaim humanity, rudeness, Slow Writing, snail mail correspondence, speed, sympathy regrets, techno culture, texting, thank you note, wedding invitations

See the World through your mailbox…

April 14, 2011 By Carol

April 14, 2011 Jessica, my new pen friend from Florida told me about these two terrific postcard sites…. Postcrossing “The goal of this project is to allow people to receive postcards from all over the world, for free. Well, almost free! The main idea is that: if you send a postcard, you will receive at […]

Filed Under: Pen pals, Postcards Tagged With: Cairo, Correos 1997, crafts, creative individuals, Cuba, fun packages, group swaps, Mena House, postcard swap, postcards, Postcrosser, Postcrossing, pyramids, see the world, snail mail, Swap-bot, world swappers, writing letters

A Documentary Film on Pen-pals!

February 27, 2011 By Carol

February 27, 2011….I just learned about Rae and her art project involving pen-pals!  She is               gathering material and would love to get your stories. Please contact Rae and visit her on Facebook- http://www.facebook.com/#!/group.php?gid=108169829217293 “I believe it’s vitally important that such an art isn’t lost forever to the sound of clattering keyboards and the “bing” of […]

Filed Under: Pen pals Tagged With: art project, artifacts, audio, business cards, crazy about letters, endearing, Facebook, film, Glass Completely Empty, letter writing, pen pals, photography, postcards, stamps

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