Think of a close friend and try to recall the last time you saw their handwriting. Beyond personality and appearance, does their penmanship come to mind, or is there a blank page where scrawled-out ...

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 ...

In our digital age of quick texts and brief emails, the art of letter writing offers a unique opportunity to create meaningful connections with loved ones. A well-crafted letter provides space for ...

Amy Weinland Daughters handwrote weekly letters to a Facebook friend she hadn't seen for 30 years. It inspired her to write to all 580 of her friends on Facebook. She told Insider that the "social ...

(StatePoint) In an age of instant messages, video chats and social media, the art of letter writing has become rare. But sitting down to write correspondence by hand can be a much more personal way to ...

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 ...

Dear Abby: Growing up, my best friend was a female. We had a strong platonic friendship for many years. Our primary method of communication was letter-writing. We wrote hundreds of letters and emails ...

"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 ...

Amy Weinland Daughters of Tomball poses in the Houston Matters studio with her book, “Dear Dana: That time I went crazy and wrote all 580 of my Facebook friends a handwritten letter.” In the 1980s, ...

For the latest "Morning Edition" community poem, Rachel Martin and poet Kwame Alexander ask listeners for poetry submissions. This round, the call-out is for poems in letter, or epistolary, form.