Writing Postcards With Style (Or, Waiting for Woonsocket)
I have a sweet spot for postcards. How can I feel such big love for such tiny rectangles? Good question. This is a first in a series of posts about these travel-writing vehicles par excellence. For...
View ArticleThe 50,000 Silver Dollar Bar: A Montana Attraction
My mom’s parents, Hazel and David, owned a gift store for many years in West Virginia. I have only faint memories of playing on the floor while Mom worked the cash register. In the ‘80s, when the...
View ArticleWriting Stylish Postcards: Take the Haiku Challenge
For my birthday a few years ago, my friend Molly gave me a slim book called the haiku year. It changed not only the way I thought about haiku but also about postcards. In the book’s preface, Tom...
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