Writing a letter of recommendation for a friend can feel like an honor and a responsibility. It’s an opportunity to support ...

The mom of two shares how the discovery inspired her Dearist Jennifer Yang found a letter to a friend she never sent and started thinking about what letter-writing meant to her Inspired and wanting to ...

Even if you’ve led a law-abiding life, you might have a friend or family member who gets into serious trouble and faces time in prison. That’s when you could be asked to write a letter on this loved ...

This article originally appear in October 1984 issue of Town & Country. I am not among those who believe that letter writing is dead. My idea of heaven, in fact, is having at least four letters to ...

"What is healing, but a shift in perspective?” — Mark Doty, Heaven’s Coast Transactional writing — or letter writing — gets you beyond what you thought you could not get over. With all the other ways ...

Concerned about a friend or a loved one who may be feeling the winter doldrums? Try writing them a gratitude letter. By Gina Hamadey If you are looking to make someone — even yourself — feel better ...

Zoom calls and texts are emotionally draining, but exchanging handwritten notes can be sublime. By Jordan Salama Mr. Salama is a writer. The first letter arrived dated March 31, 2020. It was from a ...

Emails, texts, tweets, posts – in the 21st century, we write more than ever but without putting pen to paper. We frequently and casually fire off digital messages using generic text speak and ...

I’m a letter writer. Like my mother before me and her mother before her, I regularly put pen to paper. I know this makes me unusual: most Americans haven't written a personal letter in years. The ...

For the past couple of years, Courtney Cochran hosted a Nashville-based meetup group called the Snail Mail Social Club. Before the pandemic, it involved people gathering, pen and paper in hand, to ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. When a close friend of Albert Einstein committed murder, Einstein rushed to defend his character, ...