I must admit, I’ve been away from my letter writing supplies for far too long.  The give away over at the Letter Writer’s Alliance got me motivated to pull out my typewriter, canceled stamps, and vintage paper bits.  I mean, if you’re sending a letter to the LWA you’ve got to make it look good!  I couldn’t send in a naked note– just a plain envelope?!  Oh the horror.

Also, this weekend I made another trip to the Smithsonian’s Postal Museum– easily my favorite thing in DC.  While there, I went to a lecture (“Only a Penny: The Victorian Revolution in Letter Writing“).  It was an excellent program, full of interesting facts and an argument about how the penney post revolutionized communication a lot like the Internet has more recently.  I’m not quite sure that I’d go that far, perhaps because when you live something it always feels more revolutionary, but it is an interesting extension of the “everything old is new again” thing.  It looks like the lecture will be archived online at UStream, but I’m not entirely sure.

While at the museum I picked up a pamphlet of their future programs– I’ll be back.  A lot.