![]() I remember thinking how brave and proud I was of myself for going off without my family for two weeks. I was pretty young, so it was a big deal. The very next year, I did something else really huge I went off to camp by myself. I remember this so well because I never wrote her back and I regret it to this day! Sorry, Ruth. I even remember one of her letters including little wooden beads she had painted from a 90s craft set and how special it felt to receive them. Telephone calls weren’t really a thing for some reason, so my closest gal pal had begun writing me from a few states away, asking in her misspellings and reversed letters how I was doing with all the new in my life. It was for this reason that I was beginning my writing journey. This memory comes from a time when had just moved to a different state, the first really big thing to happen for me, especially as I had finally reached an age where friends began exchanging matching BFF jewelry and were special, treasured things. The eraser shavings from my frustrated writing attempts made my envelopes look like sad, little construction sites. #SNAIL MAIL STATIONERY SET HOW TO#My first letter writing memory is of me sitting in the kitchen of our new house, fidgeting and complaining, struggling to understand the massive amount of letters and numbers and how to stack them in the right way, like you would a good block tower, so that our mail carrier knew where to send my messy-looking words. Being from the South, it involved a lot of manners and rules. Today’s blog post was written by C&Co team member, Michelle !īack in the 90s when stationery was neon, Lisa Frank was in, and Japanese mechanical pencils were popping up in the U.S., I was beginning my journey with snail mail. Mailman, Bring Me No More Blues - Buddy Holly Postcard Memories - Drew Holcomb and the Neighbors That's why I know you're my heart's only desire Signed, Sealed, Delivered I'm Yours - Stevie Wonder I'm Gonna Sit Right Down and Write Myself a Letter - Nat King Cole I never thought I'd have an admirer from overseasīut someone is sending me stationary filled with chimpanzees You can't imagine so many monkeys in the daily mailĪll of them coming anonymously so they leave no trail ![]()
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