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.
It is here – Christmas Eve! The first time I listened to John Denver & The Muppets sing “Silent Night” from his CD “A Christmas Together” it was (and still is) among my favorites to hear him tell the story of how this beloved hymn
In time for us while wrapping Christmas presents and writing out those Christmas cards here are two fun songs that are perfect fun – namely “The Chipmunk Song” (1958) and “I want a hippopotamus for Christmas” (1953). By design today’s blog post is short and sweet!
Today is the Winter Solstice – the shortest day of the year for the Northern Hemisphere; it also marks my 300th blog post of blogging daily since launching this site! How the time has flown! While I had planned to share some sentiments about reaching this 300
So what topic made today’s blog post #299 ? “Let’s Keep Christmas” – A Sermon by Peter Marshall (1902-1949) This small book is (6 x 7) that is found on top of the stack of Christmas books in our guest room this time of year.
Back when Cuddy and I were seeing the veterinarian a lot when he was so sick – on one visit we got on the topic of books about Dogs that were real special and today’s blog post is about one of the books she highly recommended. The book is “The Art of
On December 19, 1843 Charles Dickens published “A Christmas Carol” – the original title was “A Christmas Carol in Prose, Being a Ghost-Story of Christmas”. The first time I recall seeing it was actually in cartoon with “Mr. Magoo’s Christmas Carol” (1962) and it was
The day has finally arrived – December 18, 2015 and with it the release of the new Star Wars movie, “Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens”. There are several friends I know who are taking their grown children to see the movie as they (we) were
In recalling previous Christmas reading lists it struck me that I have been missing one of my favorites – from a Good Housekeeping December 1931 magazine. It is called “The Red Glass Bowl” – A Short Story by Margaret Weymouth Jackson and illustrated by Frances
