Welcome letter writing enthusiasts and those new and/or rediscovering the joys of letter writing. We celebrate letter writing here!
Whether the topic focuses on buying your first fountain pen, downloading a printable for jotting down a few whimsical sentiments, sending a post card, dusting off your typewriter, the joys of selecting vintage or new postage to our envelope cachets, adding to our stationery stash, or simply hand-writing a letter – it’s all fun and part of the journey with a blog post by Helen Rittersporn.
Here you will find ongoing encouragement to regularly carve out a few precious moments to connect with others via “old” styles of correspondence, specifically in letter writing.
This weekend, April 21-23 is the 22nd Annual Atlanta Pen Show 2017 at The Wyndham Atlanta Galleria. The Atlanta Pen Show 2017 offers the perfect opportunity for exploring the large assortment of fountain pens available. “There are are a variety of plans for the show,
Perfect for letter writing, I’m enjoying my go-to box of Lilly Pulitzer Assorted Notecard Set in signature multi-color with sherbet-lined coordinating envelopes. This would make a GREAT Mother’s Day gift idea, or for upcoming birthdays too! A few months ago I purchased a set and
Today we are looking at the 1906 Great San Francisco Earthquake Post Office Postcards, Mail, and Letter Writers. It was on this day, April 18, 1906, The Great San Francisco Earthquake happened. We have an article at the Postal Museum, Photos of the San
With the Boston Marathon being held today on Patriots’ Day, we are looking at some Boston Marathon Greeting Cards and the Marathon 1996 USPS Stamp. We’ve got details on the premiere of ‘Boston’, the first feature-length documentary about the history of the legendary Boston
Our Easter Sunday 2017 blog post this morning is about the newly released January 2017 The Women of Easter book by Liz Curtis Higgs. My copy of the book I have ordered and am anticipating its arrival this next week. It is available in ebook format
This morning I was able to finally sit down and watch on DVD from 1975 the CBS TV Special The Easter Promise by Gail Rock, from the Addie Mills series of books. At the beginning of March, I had found the DVD listed on Amazon
On this Good Friday 2017 Letter Writing is on my mind as I look at a juxtaposition of my two previous Good Friday blog posts “The Old Rugged Cross” from 2015 and “St. Matthew Passion” from 2016. Later this morning I’ll be sitting down to
With this past weekend blogging about WWI letters with the 100th Centennial for the US entering The Great War, our blog post this morning is on the MAUNDY THURSDAY WWI poem by Wilfred Owen. And I’ve included below the links to my 2015 and 2016 Maundy
