As a kid, there was nothing I loved more than seeing a handwritten letter arrive on my doormat from one of my pen pals. I treasured every letter and postcard, storing them in a shoe box covered with a ...

Two women who were set up as pen pals by an American TV programme and a UK magazine in the 1970s have met for the first time.

“It never ceases to amaze me that no matter how much you have on your plate, your students are at the forefront of all that you do. I’m honored to help in any way I can to make the virtual world of ...

Dawson Johns works for Black and Pink, an organization that fights to abolish prisons. Johns helps coordinate a letter-writing program to incarcerated people and writes letters themselves. This is ...

Debbie Houschild, of Oceanport, first began writing her pen pal, Jane Bean, of Sittingbourne, England, in 1974. The pair met ...

I no longer have a desire to chat with him because I feel like he doesn’t care what happens to us. I don’t know whether to ...

For months, third graders at Crooked Lake Elementary in Andover, Minnesota have been trading letters with pen pals a few generations older. On Friday, they finally met face-to-face. The pen pal ...

Kim Eichenberger, who hails from Gebenstorf, Switzerland, connected with inmate William McCarty on WriteAPrisoner.com -- a website facilitating pen pal relationships with American jailbirds. Kim ...

All of us need reliable friends. We take companionship where we can find it. In some cases, that camaraderie comes in the form of correspondence. Ergo, the term pen pal. For much of the past year, I ...

Recently, I learned that my trip in the 1970s was considered a “stain” on the file Romanian authorities kept on my friend and his family. Eager to escape the summer swarm of other young Americans also ...