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.
Given the blog post on Friday was about remembering the 70th Anniversary of VE Day it was serendipitous to discover this poster from Mother’s Day, May 10, 1942 encouraging buy war bonds. Photo attribution (Upper left) By Unknown or not provided (U.S. National Archives and
Today’s blog post is focused on staying current with the new stamp issues being made available this month. To start with, the 2015 Special Olympics World Games commemorative stamp was made available nationwide beginning today, May 9th. It was fun to pick up a sheet of
and other events on this date. In looking at letters that would reflect events in history today, May 08, it would mean looking for letters of someone trying Coca-Cola for the first time (1886), to great crowds celebrating VE Day ending (1945), to someone writing about seeing the
It came in the mail today – the empty grocery bag (plastic this year) that my letter carrier delivered. The nation’s largest food drive is this Saturday, May 09, 2015, the 23rd annual ‘Stamp Out Hunger’ Letter Carriers Food drive. The event is held each year on the second
National Nurses Week begins today, May 06, with National Nurses Day, and ends on Tuesday, May 12, Florence Nightingale’s Birthday. My Aunt was a nurse who up to age 80 kept her nurses license up to date even though she had retired years before,
This first week of May includes Teacher Appreciation Week: May 04 – 08. My Dad’s career included teaching at the college level and my Mom taught first grade for many years before retiring. One of the things that Dad stressed was that learning is a lifetime
In looking at today’s twitter stream it has been lit up everywhere including the American Philatelic Society (Twitter @APS_stamps) with photo of Star Wars Yoda 41 cent U.S. Stamp as part of: Celebrating #StarWarsDay – May 4th – May the Force be with you! This got
Enjoying the beautiful Sunday weather today included picking up my copy of Seth Godin’s small book (in size, not in ideas) of “We are all Weird” (2011). And there on page 28 was a paragraph about Jack Zylkin and his idea to add a
