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A love letter to yourself
When I was an awkward eighth grader preparing to leave middle school, our English teacher asked us to write letters to ourselves describing how we thought the coming year would go. “Think about the changes you’ll experience,” he said. “Write … Continue reading
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Never thought anything could be so beautiful
At an antiques show earlier in August, I found myself drawn to the stacks and stacks of postcards littering booths around my old high school’s cafeteria. Though I’ve gone in the past and enjoyed flipping through many of the images, … Continue reading
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State of the postcard
Since joining Postcrossing, an international postcard-swapping project, my mailbox has been overflowing with love. Postcards in all shapes and sizes have found me at my desk in Maryland, where my coworker Kelly brings in the daily mail. “Bam!” she shouts … Continue reading
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The Saga of Howard, and how he finally got back in touch
Howard was a sock monkey. My sock monkey. And when I went on a trip to Florida in 1998, he decided to jump ship. Made from scratch and lovingly sewed by my mom as a Valentine’s Day gift when I … Continue reading
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Everybody’s free (to write a gushy fangirl letter)
I’ve always been a fangirl. I’m pretty sure it started during my rampant and incredibly serious obsession with Hanson, that flaxen-haired trio of Oklahoma brothers who took the music scene by storm (storm, I tell you!) in 1997 with “MMMBop,” … Continue reading
Postcards from far away
In this day of Facebook, email, Twitter, texting and – yes — even the occasional phone call, there’s something enchanting, reassuring and exciting about getting mail. And I don’t mean bills, of course, or credit card applications, coupons and flyers. I’m … Continue reading
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