In her new book, Syme's Letter Writer, Rachel Syme of The New Yorker explains how to write a delightful letter to a loved one. Unlike texting and email, old-fashioned letters, hand-addressed and ...

WHEN I was at university my dad wrote me the occasional letter. They were quite short, and generally just accounts of a typical day at home; comings and goings through the front door, the morning dog ...

Three of my four grandchildren cannot read a letter that I write to them in cursive. My youngest grandchild, age 9, is learning cursive now. The article about the loss of writing thank-you notes ...

The art of letter writing is not dead. Rachel Syme, a New Yorker staff writer, learned that during the early days of the pandemic. Longing for human connection, she asked her followers on social media ...

After 60 years of writing letters, pen pals meet face-to-face for the first time The lifelong pen pals have written letters and made phone calls for over six decades, but never once saw each other ...

A friendship that began in 1969 through a Girl Scout pen pal program became a reality this summer when Valerie Scafaria of Middleburg Heights met her longtime pen pal, Sheila McAlpine, from England.

"When kids write letters, they're just messy," she says. As kids practice writing "A," each iteration is different, and that variability helps solidify their conceptual understanding of the letter.

In Michigan, a group of fourth graders is learning important lessons on reading and writing. Since December, they have been exchanging handwritten letters with veteran pen pals and finally got the ...

Pen pal season is upon us as Oregon Humanities opens up another round of its Dear Stranger letter-writing project. Since 2014, the nonprofit has invited Oregonians to exchange letters with people ...