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1. Buy your cards anytime throughout the year, whenever the moment strikes you. 2. Get your mailing list organized before you sit down to write your cards. Doing this can help you remember everyone and can also give you a sense of completion when you've sent a card to everyone on the list. 3. Timing is important. Send your cards in early December (late November if sending overseas). Sending cards to service members overseas? Plan on sending those right after Thanksgiving to make sure they arrive on time. Sending cards to business clients? Any time between Thanksgiving Day and New...

Hello! I wrote earlier about how much I love to send Christmas cards to people and that got me thinking about how this tradition of sending and receiving cards is so much more than an opportunity to connect with people far away. When I was a child, my grandmother would gather us up and sit us down at the dining room table. The younger kids would get to draw and sometimes she would send these along with the cards. The older kids would help her write cards and address envelopes and put stamps on them. My grandmother would regale us...

Hello!I was visiting my new neighbor, Carol, the other day and all of a sudden she jumped out of her chair. "I'm sorry," she said in a panic, "I must do this right now." I don't know Carol very well. She and her husband bought the house next to mine earlier this summer and we've only had a few opportunities to visit.To be honest, I haven't quite figured her out. She speaks like a dragonfly and flitters from topic to topic as if each one doesn't have what she is looking for. I sat with patient curiosity until she returned....

Hello!Sometimes I wish autumn would last forever. Emily Brontë said it best, "Every leaf speaks bliss to me, fluttering from the autumn tree." I dream of a world where we pick apples with the grandchildren every weekend. The smell of wood fires floats in the breeze. And the air is calm and crisp.I love the flurry of domestic work that fall brings. The garden is harvested and put to bed. A stew simmers slowly in the crock pot. I arranged a collection of pumpkins and squash by the front door. Later today, I will drive into town to buy some...

Hello. I love visiting my sister because in the woods behind her house there is a creek. What a magical place! The water rolls gently over the rocks. Bugs whiz above the water. Lush grasses unfold themselves over the banks. Occasionally, through its gentle rumble, you hear a fish jump in the water. At different times during the year, I find flowers blooming, I hear frogs ribbiting, and sometimes, well, once really, I saw a turtle. I love to visit her creek and escape to its placidity. Creeks remind me that places of tranquility and serenity need not be dead....