With pen in hand and a postage stamp at the ready, how many of us write and send letters—regularly or otherwise? I’ll be the first to admit that, while I write letters, they are more often sent via email. I might have to rethink this. In grade school, I had a friend who would regularly trade the same card with another friend. Taking turns, the girls would add to and resend the card that they’d been passing between them since one of the girls left our
southern Minnesota town (and moved all the way to Minneapolis, no less!).This continued for years. Their ritual inspired me, and I started something similar when I was in college. At the time, three of my sisters were scattered across the country,
and another lived in Mexico. To help keep our sisterly bond thriving, I began The Sister Letter. Once it arrived in her mailbox, each sister had one month to remove her previous letter and add in her newest newsy post, photos or anything of interest and send it off to the next sister, who would repeat the process. This
