My goal this month is to hand write a letter to someone new everyday in May. I will be dedicating each blog post to those individuals receiving letters that week. The people you will read about over the next 31 days have touched my life in ways that no blog post or letter can describe. Read more
Continuing my May goal of hand writing a letter to someone each day, these are the individuals I wrote to this week… May 4: Carrie Lynn How this character arrived in my life: Carrie was the administrative assistant in the first department I worked in when I started at Nationwide. I met her within the Read more
May 7: Matthew Allen How this character arrived in my life: In hand-me-down clothes (he’s child #5 in a family of 5 kids) at age 6. He’s been there since before I knew how to read. We went to school together from Kindergarten through 12th grade and spent the majority of our elementary/middle school years Read more
Carrying on with writing a letter to someone every day in May…. May 10: Meredith Ann How this character arrived in my life: With her husband, Eric, right when Chris and I first started dating. Chris and Eric are best friends and somewhere early on in our dating relationship Chris took me over to meet Read more
Since I spent nearly every minute of junior high and high school with these ladies, they are the receivers of my handwritten letters this week…. May 13: Jennifer Elaine How this character arrived in my life: In kindergarten with a bowl haircut. I had a mullet. We became fast friends. My favorite memory with this Read more
May 15: Rosemary Nicole How this character arrived in my life: In 7th grade she was just there – with the cool crowd, in cool clothes, doing cool things, listening to cool music, watching cool movies that were probably rated R, drawing cool drawings, being cool. Our circle of friends had an overlap. I wanted Read more
May 18: Alisha Nicole How this character arrived in my life: On her front porch with a new born baby in her arms. Alisha and her husband Tom were the first neighbors Chris and I met when we bought our house. Actually, the day we met Tom we asked about his family and he said Read more
May 22: Katherine Louise How this character arrived in my life: Sitting on the floor next to a room full of copy machines. Katie and I had the same major at Ohio University (psychology) which led us to the same work study jobs (working in the copy/print room in the psychology department). We bonded over Read more
May 26: James Thompson How this character arrived in my life: Called “dad” by my mom, called “Grandpa” by me. He showed up with a twang and a box full of oatmeal pies. As a resident of Kentucky, he calls everyone “son” and spent the majority of his career driving for Little Debbie. My favorite Read more
I am tired, emotionally drained, and personally fulfilled after spending the last 30 days handwriting a letter to someone everyday. Here are 10 things I’ve learned from the experience for those who may consider trying it too (and a little about how/why I arrived on this goal). Do it…today – During my sophomore year in Read more