Writing Postcards – A Tradition Continues
Postcard carousel in the colonnade at Mariánské Lázně, Czech Republic (September 2016) Whenever I travel, I send postcards to my brother and sister. They do the same. This [...]
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Oct, 2018
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Oct, 2018
The Rainy Day File
One evening last summer, my brother and I lingered by the camp fire after the rest of the family had gone to bed. As the flames died down, we looked [...]
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Aug, 2018
Why Handwritten Get Well Cards Are Special
I have blogged before about the special magic of handwritten letters and postcards. But now that I am recovering from hip surgery and have been largely housebound, I discovered just how [...]
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Jun, 2017
Snail Mail Art
I adore snail mail art. As a kid, I loved to draw. That pastime, along with several others, has remained in my childhood. Over the past few years, however, I've [...]
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Sep, 2015
The Postcard Tradition
I haven’t been around because I’ve been chilling, and before I was chilling, I was traveling—days crammed with stuffing suitcases, riding taxes and buses, making it to the airport on time, [...]
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Feb, 2015
Interview with Sarah Wildman
In December I interviewed Sarah Wildman about her book Paper Love. This was a particular privilege because Paper Love is my kind of story: figuring out what happened in a [...]
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Aug, 2011
Writing Postcards
This summer has revived the art of writing letters and postcards for me. While my daughter was at camp, the only way to communicate with her was to write [...]
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Jun, 2011
Writing Letters to my Children
Now that my kids are all away at camp, I’m doing an odd thing: I’m writing them letters. It’s an unfamiliar thing. It feels awkward to recount my daily [...]