tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4130421352415377273.post2716276533825478614..comments2024-03-26T03:46:04.937-07:00Comments on Books in Northport: Postal Holiday Writing ChallengeP. J. Grathhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12693462910472164289noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4130421352415377273.post-55728631493172229202011-02-24T04:07:08.199-08:002011-02-24T04:07:08.199-08:00I needed to challenge myself, and it’s working qui...I needed to challenge myself, and it’s working quite well so far. Also, I love the thought of all these letters flying through the air! It’s as if we’ve stirred a flock of birds into flight!P. J. Grathhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12693462910472164289noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4130421352415377273.post-82174068697813596712011-02-24T03:31:14.353-08:002011-02-24T03:31:14.353-08:00Wrote my first letter last night. As I thought ab...Wrote my first letter last night. As I thought about it I realized there were several people I'd been meaning to write to...for a long time...so I'm on the way! Thanks for the challenge!Dawnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00824027366993286152noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4130421352415377273.post-56833067399031407082011-02-23T15:27:11.148-08:002011-02-23T15:27:11.148-08:00Amy-Lynn, are you taking up the challenge? I got a...Amy-Lynn, are you taking up the challenge? I got an e-mail today from a friend who was thinking of promoting handwritten letters on her blog, and I'm hoping she'll go ahead and do it, too. Now she and I need to sit down with pen and paper and write letters to each other. I think I'll do that tonight....P. J. Grathhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12693462910472164289noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4130421352415377273.post-19099982424699670402011-02-23T09:00:32.072-08:002011-02-23T09:00:32.072-08:00Pamela, I love hand written letters and everything...Pamela, I love hand written letters and everything to do with them. I once read the story of family members writing secret messages behind the stamps on letters sent to loved ones imprisoned in concentration camps during WWII. <br /><br />Handwriting a letter a week is an excellent challenge for me.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4130421352415377273.post-46519490779403158482011-02-22T04:53:42.557-08:002011-02-22T04:53:42.557-08:00It's frustrating about e-mails, too, isn't...It's frustrating about e-mails, too, isn't it, Jerry? I mean, I have e-mail correspondence that is very important to me, and that I "save" in "folders," which is to say it's still there in my computer--for now! But everything on my first computer is gone with the wind, and printing out e-mails to save them is not at all the same, even if I could bring myself to do it, and I can't. I'm glad you save letters, too, that you have such exciting letters to save, and that you got POSTCARDS in the mail this week. There's another change: people send photos through their phones rather than postcards. But who keeps phone photos?<br /><br />(Are we dinosaurs?)P. J. Grathhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12693462910472164289noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4130421352415377273.post-69271297527046237072011-02-21T17:25:53.239-08:002011-02-21T17:25:53.239-08:00Hooray for real mail! I've kept every letter t...Hooray for real mail! I've kept every letter that's ever been important to me. One special file allows me to relive the pleasure -- the absolute, deep-in-the-gut, dance-around-the-room joy -- of a young writer receiving his first acceptance letters from famous publications.<br />Try as I might, I just can't save emails.<br />Like P.J., I've been going through a lucky spell: postcards in the past few days from Vietnam and India. Contact!Jerry Dennisnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4130421352415377273.post-19480267566800143802011-02-21T07:22:59.110-08:002011-02-21T07:22:59.110-08:00Writing letters this cold February morning gives m...Writing letters this cold February morning gives me something positive to do while we wait at home for the septic guy to come see what's going on with our pump. Oh, the joys of country winter living! <br /><br />Dawn, I have seen postcards sent between Omena and Northport and between Northport and Lake Leelanau. No one expected instant responses in those days.<br /><br />Gerry, your uncommitted modification is a noble one. I have faith in you!P. J. Grathhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12693462910472164289noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4130421352415377273.post-32653842720743217942011-02-21T03:03:01.022-08:002011-02-21T03:03:01.022-08:00Sounds like a plan to me! I LOVE getting real let...Sounds like a plan to me! I LOVE getting real letters, used to write to my Mom down in Alabama every Saturday. She wrote to her mother every week too, even though we only lived an hour away from Grandma. <br /><br />Heading toward my address book now...Dawnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00824027366993286152noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4130421352415377273.post-76682144839898463312011-02-20T17:44:55.996-08:002011-02-20T17:44:55.996-08:00I think it's an extremely good idea to mail of...I think it's an extremely good idea to mail off a book a week. It's one way to get the surplus out of the attic. But I am not making a commitment! No indeed, I'm simply turning the idea over in my mind.Gerryhttp://torchlakeviews.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.com