Letter Writers Alliance

Flats & Flickr

New for LWA members, spiffy LWA crested flats with your name on them. I'm super in love with the bright blue/teal color the paper is. Makes any letter cheery.

Also, we just created a LWA group on Flickr where we can display our pen pal swaps, letter writing prowess, member paraphernalia, ephemera, keen calligraphy skills and other epistolary goodies. No need to be a member to post images, you just have to share our love of letters.

Personally Yours,
Kathy

The Big Picture

Greetings LWA members! Here is the latest visual of our cross-country letter writing team. I hope to continual update it and I really want to increase all of those red connector lines. Remember to sign up for the Pen Pal swap and write more letters.

Letter Writers….Away!

The LWA has its first pair of pen pals! Hopefully, they are the first of many to come. I’ve been on a real pen pal kick lately. I’ve signed up for Postcrossing which has been really great fun. I’ve gotten cards from all over and from all manner of different people; from eight year old boys in Germany to young mothers in Japan. I don’t tend to keep the cards, but I do keep the cancelled stamps. It’s a holdover from when I collected stamps as a child. Each one is a tiny, wonderful work of art.

I attempted to look up a bit about the history of pen paling for everyone’s edification, but I found surprisingly little information. I’ve put in a request with my contact over at the National Postal Museum to see if she has any information. Wikipedia did mention that Charlie Brown had a pen pal in the 1960s, but I’m sure there were pen pals before then. The entry also mentioned a book by Geraldine Brooks entitled Foreign Correspondence about her quest to rediscover the pen pals from her childhood. Read an excerpt from the book here. I believe it should be added to the LWA mandatory reading list. Furthermore, I believe that the LWA should have a mandatory reading list!

In other news, the illustrious Kathy is off on an Italian vacation, but I am still manning the fort. Send me your letters about pen pals or other readings you would recommend about the wonderful world of letter writing.

Postally yours,

Donovan

Pen Pal Swap

The Letter Writers Alliance is organizing a Pen Pal Swap. Sign up and start writing more letters!