Tired of texting? Send your loved ones some snail mail instead. Rachel Syme, author of "Syme's Letter Writer: A Guide to ...

Syme has used postcards, vintage hotel stationery and pink legal paper ("because Jacqueline Susann, who wrote Valley of the Dolls, always wrote on pink notepads," she says) to write letters.

Kay would sit on the stoop of her porch and watch Jolene twist and twirl in a lonely dance, singing to herself, “no letter today,” as she watched for the old mailman to come up the street. Sometimes, ...

today’s kids cannot be expected to know the value these humble postcards held for earlier generations. But why did Nadvi ask students at Urdu schools to write these letters in Marathi?