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She Loves Me

February 14, 2025 By Carol

  Dear Reader, Here is a Valentine’s Day treat.  I recently saw the play: She Loves Me. It is based on the 1937 play Parfumerie by Hungarian playwright Miklós László. The action takes place in a Budapest perfume shop in the 1930’s. The binding central element behind the story is the exchange of letters between two […]

Filed Under: Great Finds, Handwriting, Pen pals Tagged With: Abigail Adams, Alicia Kaori, Budapest perfume shop, Julius Thomas III, Long Wharf Theatre, Miklos Laszlo, Parfumerie, Photo by Curtis Brown Photography, She Loves Me, Valentine's Day

Show them some love

February 8, 2025 By Carol

Dear Reader,  Valentine’s Day is just one week away. So much is going on, it is easy to lose track.  Are you having difficulty keeping up? I am. Can you think about someone or two who could use a little love? …Just about everyone you meet, right? “Time goes by so fast, people go in […]

Filed Under: Greeting Cards, Holiday, Special Occasions Tagged With: Cheers (TV Show), Glamour Gals Foundation, Masala Cards, My Dear Friend, Todd Smith-flea notes, Valentine's Day

My Dear Friend Valentine Campaign

February 5, 2024 By Carol

Dear Reader, Once again, The Glamour Gals Foundation is determined to generate smiles among isolated seniors in care homes. This is a great campaign. I apologize for this late posting. The deadline to send a card is this Friday, February 9th. So if you sign on quickly, you’ll be assigned a name to send a […]

Filed Under: Great Finds, Holiday, letters open doors Tagged With: Dr. Barbara Fredrickson, eudaimonic happiness, Glamour Gals Foundation, My Dear Friend campaign, Valentine's Day

Song of Songs

February 7, 2023 By Carol

Dear Reader- Margaret Shepherd’s calligraphy show, “Song of Songs” just opened at Yale’s Divinity School last week. The back story of this event is a curious one, so I thought I’d share it with you…And, in this season of Valentines, it’s easy to talk about some love poetry! In the Spring of 2010, Adam Schwartz […]

Filed Under: Books, Handwriting, Letter Writing in the News, Special Occasions, Uncategorized Tagged With: Adam Schwartz, ancient love poems, Bible, David Friend, David Friend Hall, Margaret Shepherd, Paraclete Press, Peabody Museum of Natural History, Sarah Lawrence, Song of Solomon, Song of Songs, St. Botolph Club, The Art of the Handwritten Note, The Art of the Personal Letter, Valentine's Day, Yale Divinity School, Yale University

“My Dear Friend”

December 19, 2022 By Carol

After her grandmother died in 2000, Rachael Doyle, a high school junior from Long Island, decided that she wanted to do something to lessen the loneliness for some seniors in a local nursing home. Rachael along with 2 volunteers went into the senior facility and offered the women there makeovers. It began with doing the […]

Filed Under: Great Finds, Handwriting, Holiday, Letter Writing in the News, Newsflash, Pen pals Tagged With: COVID-19, elder isolation, GlamourGals, Hamden Business Writes 100's of Letters, handwritten note, high school volunteers, holiday season loneliness, intergenerational connections, lockdown restrictions, makeovers and manicures, My Dear Friend program, New Haven Register, New Year's resolution, Rachael Doyle Boyens, sense of being loved, Valentine's Day

Penmanship revisited

February 12, 2022 By Carol

Betsy Lewin, Mushy

Hello Reader,  Valentine’s Day always signals a good reason to put your pen to paper.  And having your message clear and legible will help the recipient know who is playing Cupid. Did you know? In former times, when a man was wooing a young lady, the quality of his penmanship determined whether he even had […]

Filed Under: Books, Great Finds, Greeting Cards, Handwriting, Special Occasions Tagged With: 100 Things We've Lost to the Internet, artform, Betsy Lewin, Cupid, flourishes, handwriting, improving your handwriting, keep cursive alive, letterforms consistent, Lynda Graham- Barber, Mushy- The Complete Book of Valentine Words, Pamela Paul, penmanship, sterile uniformity, support your humanity, Valentine's Day, Write this down carefully

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

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

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

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