In the age of e-mail, instant messaging and Twitter, Matthew Esler is an old-fashioned pen pal. Over the past decade, he's corresponded via snail mail with dozens of people, mostly women, from around ...

LATHAM, N.Y. (NEWS10) — A group of local high school students are ditching the convenience of direct messaging online and sending letters the old-fashioned way, through the mail. Their pen pals are ...

Some people have one pen pal they exchange letters with on a regular basis. Megan Warantz, a 60-year-old television and movie producer from Oceanside, has 18. Melissa Bedell, a 44-year-old director of ...

Self-isolation and shelter-in-place orders mean, among other things, that wanderlust is at an all-time high. But travelers are born innovators. Many are refusing to let the pandemic crush their bucket ...

Nearly four months into a strict no-visitor rule due to the coronavirus, an assisted living community in North Carolina tapped into the power of social media to get its residents connected with people ...

WAYNE, Pa. -- "Only difference is now we've been in the same place at the same time," said Krystel Alston about her lifelong friend, Haley Briggs. Alston and Briggs were paired up as pen pals during ...

Never underestimate the power of a handwritten letter. One dad recently shared the heartwarming story of how his 11-year-old daughter, Emerson, became pen pals with postal workers across the nation.

EVERETT — Students in this Japanese class gain more than a new language. They also learn a lost art. What’s up with that? The Mariner High School students are pen pals with Itoshima High School in ...

CHAPIN, S.C. (WIS) - Everyone loves getting mail from friends and the people they care about. Now, you have a chance to make a new friend and give them that same feeling. Generations of Chapin is ...

Jordan, an undergraduate student at Georgetown University, suggested taking deep breaths to clear the head. Bernadette, a gardener in New Mexico, sent a sketch of flowers in a vase. Frank, a ...

LINCOLN, Neb. (KOLN) - Home Instead, a local in-home care business, hosted a pen pal event on Wednesday to help foster relationships with people in assisted living. A 2020 University of Michigan study ...