In the age of e-mail, instant messaging and Twitter, Matthew Esler is an old-fashioned pen pal. Over the past decade, he's corresponded via snail mail with dozens of people, mostly women, from around ...

LATHAM, N.Y. (NEWS10) — A group of local high school students are ditching the convenience of direct messaging online and sending letters the old-fashioned way, through the mail. Their pen pals are ...

Some people have one pen pal they exchange letters with on a regular basis. Megan Warantz, a 60-year-old television and movie producer from Oceanside, has 18. Melissa Bedell, a 44-year-old director of ...

Pen pals Emily Conn (left) and Brenda Stowe (right) have been in touch since they started writing letters to each other in middle school. After six decades of friendship fostered by handwritten ...

Even though they had never met and they live 1,900 miles apart, Sherry Morrissey of Grand Forks and Dora Chavez of San Jose, Calif., have shared much of their lives in letters they've exchanged as pen ...

Self-isolation and shelter-in-place orders mean, among other things, that wanderlust is at an all-time high. But travelers are born innovators. Many are refusing to let the pandemic crush their bucket ...

Nearly four months into a strict no-visitor rule due to the coronavirus, an assisted living community in North Carolina tapped into the power of social media to get its residents connected with people ...

COLOMA, Mich. (WSBT) — Fourth graders and veterans finally met face to face after a year-long pen pal connection. It was all a part of a pen pal program to enhance students’ reading and writing skills ...

Never underestimate the power of a handwritten letter. One dad recently shared the heartwarming story of how his 11-year-old daughter, Emerson, became pen pals with postal workers across the nation.

The world's oldest pen pals who have enjoyed a transatlantic friendship for almost 90 years have revealed they've brought their relationship into the 21st century by now communicating on Zoom - but ...

Jordan, an undergraduate student at Georgetown University, suggested taking deep breaths to clear the head. Bernadette, a gardener in New Mexico, sent a sketch of flowers in a vase. Frank, a ...