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.
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
During this Lenten Season, I’ve been reading the 2013 paperback Love & Salt: A Spiritual Friendship Shared in Letters book by Andrews and Griffith. It is about two friends who meet in a creative writing workshop and decide to write each other DAILY during Lent.
On this Tuesday morning, our daily blog topic encouraging letter writing is Clothes Encounters of the Postal Kind! Today is Day 11 of National Letter Writing Month #Write_On campaign. For my new email blog subscribers here – Welcome! Before we get started, consider this
On this Monday morning, we are looking at the Egg Press Social Preparedness Kit Stationery including their parallelogram write-on-velopes. They are a letterpress and design company which you can visit in person when in Portland, Oregon. If you are thinking the name Egg Press sounds familiar
On this Palm Sunday afternoon, we have a special blog post with WWI letters Dear Boys in Service by Frank Skidmore. Today is my part two blog post for this weekend on World War I letters. My tears are drying from reading the poignancy
This weekend both of my letter writing blog posts revolve around World War I letters with today, part one, on the Smithsonian National Postal Museum World War I Letters Exhibit. You will want to be sure to be back tomorrow for my special Sunday blog
The US Postal Service has extended the Scott Joplin Anniversary Station Pictorial Postmark for 30 days, for the Saint Louis Stamp Expo. Think Ragtime, Think The Entertainer, the 1973 movie The Sting with Newman and Redford and you have his best-known composition! As we
