Sometimes the smallest Santa letters — printed with painstaking care by hands still learning their curves —carry the biggest truths.

Source: Caroline Leavitt It started young for me. I didn’t really have anyone to talk with. My father was a sulky, silent brute and I couldn’t risk getting yelled at or hit by speaking up. My mother ...

The Office of Graduate Admissions (OGA) processes all U.S. and International applications for admission into the Graduate School at the University of Texas at Austin. The application process for ...

Assistant Teaching Professor of Global Arts, Media and Writing Studies, University of California, Merced Ordinary and universal, the act of writing changes the brain. From dashing off a heated text ...

Now in its 113th year, Operation Santa, run by the United States Postal Service, allows children and families to send letters to Santa Claus. Those letters are posted online—personal details ...

USPS Operation Santais ready for the 2025 holiday season! Starting on Monday, Nov. 17, individuals, families, offices and community groups can visit USPSOperationSanta.com to adopt letters written to ...

I’m a letter writer. Like my mother before me and her mother before her, I regularly put pen to paper. I know this makes me unusual: most Americans haven't written a personal letter in years. The ...

My name is Holly Hopkins and I am running a write-in campaign for the Bellefonte school board. In April I was interviewed and chosen by the board to fill their vacant seat after member Jack Bechdel ...

Readers on TikTok and Instagram are making the aesthetics of reading more visible than ever with creative, and often intricate, annotations. Called marginalia, these markups can be elaborate, with ...

A precis is a concise summary of a longer text, written in your own words while keeping the main ideas intact. It demonstrates your ability to understand, analyze, and condense information without ...

The Dad Letter Project is described as a "hug, but on paper," its website said. Beginning in the fourth grade, 30-year-old Rosie Paulik said she grew up receiving countless handwritten letters from ...

The Greek language was written in capital letters, without punctuation or spaces between the words. Credit: Zde, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 Have you ever wondered why ancient Greeks used a ...