When a friend received a hand written letter from me, she quickly responded by e-mail…“Mary, I didn’t know people sent letters by postal mail anymore!” She was so pleased to receive something in the mail besides bills and junk mail, she said.
 I still try to send postcards with hand written notes as bits of inspiration. As the cost of postage gets higher, my communications more frequently result in postcards, but I still like to send and receive these. I recall the pleasure, too, when I found letters and cards my grandmother had saved, some dating back nearly 150 years ago.
These …read more

I’ve only just discovered it’s National Handwriting Week January 21 – 27. This information came to me via some online research on handwriting analysis, which was prompted by an article I read today in Reader’s Digest while sitting in a waiting room. The magazine was at least seven years old, but the information was still current.
From what I can find online this National Handwriting Week is only national in the US. I feel it’s appropriate for all of us to stop and appreciate handwriting, though, no matter where you live. Send someone a handwritten letter or card, spend time …read more

According to this news story the US postal service says the number of letters addressed as personal mail is on the decrease. I don’t write as many letters as I used to, either. It’s an age of convenience. Something about a letter smacks of having time on your hands, but that’s what makes it so personal, so touching, and so worth keeping when you do receive a handwritten letter.
But is technology really to blame? In general people would rather tap out an email message or spend time constructing a text message on their mobile phone than sit and write a …read more