Writing Lessons & Advice: Postcards and World Postcard Day
In October 2025, I took a cross-country road trip with my husband. A few days in, we parked overnight at a truck stop that had some cool postcards. I grabbed a handful to share as souvenirs for some kids back home and made a point from then on to check out any postcard inventory at most other stops we made. Little did I know that our road trip started just a few days after a recently implemented holiday that celebrates the souvenir of choice. If unfamiliar, postcards are spe
Writing Lessons & Advice: Writing Greeting Cards
“There’s an app for that,” was the slogan tech giant Apple used to promote the iOS App Store for their devices in the early two-thousands. Amid the activities that holidays and special occasions entail-- just like with apps--there is almost certainly a greeting card for that! Greeting cards are like a cousin to writing letters . They are not totally extinct or obsolete despite existing technology. In fact, according to statistics from the Greeting Card Association, Americans
Writing Lessons & Advice: Writing Letters
In 1979, video killed the radio star. The one-hit wonder reflected on the impending shifts in music and music entertainment at the time. Its music video inaugurated the then-new MTV network. I wouldn’t be surprised to find the song among “oldies” playlists one of these days. It is a little dated, but it's still interesting to keep around. Older forms of writing and communication are the same way. While we have MacBooks and Chromebooks, we still have physical, paper notebooks
