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My Heart and Other Black Holes by Jasmine Warga, HarperCollins TW: Suicide, depression, death “We have to do it on April 7th. That date isn’t negotiable. Message me for more information.” Aysel (pronounced Uh-zel), a 16-year-old who is consumed by suicidal thoughts, frequents a web forum called Smooth Passages while she procrastinates at a miserable…
Do you think you could write 30 letters in 30 days? Write On, a collaborative campaign from Egg Press and Hello!Lucky, challenges you to the task. The campaign generally seeks to promote the creativity, joy and connection you make through the act of writing a letter. To help get you started, they offer you a free…
You’re going to want to open this box of brightness. Gabrielle, aka The Green Gables, is an eco-friendly stationery designer from the UK. She’s already got a web shop full of gorgeous paper goodies, and now she’s started a subscription service called The Happy Paper Club, which will give you a bunch of her products each…
One of my lovely pen pals, Fabrizia, is a champion of snail mail. Besides running The Postal Society and curating many projects, she also hosts the Secret Penpal Scavenger Hunt. When you’re matched with someone, you are to send them one thing from five of these categories: the City Explorer’s Kit: take a day off and…
I don’t normally get too personal on this blog, and it’s slightly out of topic range, but … whatever! My lovely pen pal Fabrizia tagged me in her self care post in January, and I’ve been meaning to post my response. I find self care incredibly important, and part of the practice can be to…
Sorry for the lack of posts, everyone! I hate having these long radio silences but sometimes there are not enough hours in my days, weeks, et cetera. As you may be able to tell by now, I love putting swap packages together. So when The Postal Society hosted a ‘in case of a gloomy day’…
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