Jul 12, 2020 Jul 12, 2020 Updated Aug 16, 2021 “I actually don’t think I have,” Larkin said. She hasn’t had anyone in particular to write to, no occasion to place a crisp envelope in the mailbox. Now ...

Carol-Ann Krause (left) and Patsy Gregory, both 80, have corresponded since they were 12 in 1955. Courtesy of Steph Calam / SWNS These two 80-year-old pen pals were stationary for 68 years, but they ...

Melanie Hansen started writing letters when she was eight years old. Back then, it was to a third cousin in Prince Edward Island. Nineteen years later, the Dieppe, N.B., aesthetician writes to three ...

Old-fashioned is very much in fashion these days. People are choosing to do the things their grandparents once had to, though perhaps in a more studied way. Some grow and can their own vegetables and ...

Baltimore independent bookstore The Ivy Bookshop is starting a Young Pen Pals Club to connect those ages 7-14 with each other via letter writing. Each participant will receive stationery, stamps, and ...

Even though they had never met and they live 1,900 miles apart, Sherry Morrissey of Grand Forks and Dora Chavez of San Jose, Calif., have shared much of their lives in letters they've exchanged as pen ...

After Wesley Morgan was furloughed from his job at the Denver International Airport in March, he soon ran out of shows to stream and items to craft, so he began writing to older adults in quarantine ...

Some people have one pen pal they exchange letters with on a regular basis. Megan Warantz, a 60-year-old television and movie producer from Oceanside, has 18. Melissa Bedell, a 44-year-old director of ...

Despite the ease of digital communications, many people find there's no replacing the personal touch that comes with a handwritten letter. Last month writer Marianne Kirby made a simple proposal. "If ...

Mario Ayala is 25 years old, but his artistic influences go back decades. He remembers receiving drawings as a young boy from his father, a driver of 18-wheeler trucks who emigrated from Cuba. “He ...