So, about three months ago, I was buying blank books at Williamsburg’s Spoonbill and Sugartown. I’m an obsessive devotee of longhand, and while I have an enormous appreciation for the Rhodia and the multiple=subject grid paper Clairefontaine, Spoonbill carries my absolute favorite kind of notebook, the Apica CD15. (They sell them by the case at a discount. Whee!) While I was picking up a handful of these, I noticed a box of secondhand postcards for sale. Some had been used and postmarked, and I enjoyed reading messages written fifty or so years ago, but I found about thirty pretty unused ones and bought them, thinking I could use them for actual mailing, or maybe put them in a frame on my wall.
Fast-forward to a few weeks ago. I had just finished writing letters to some family members who don’t use the Internet, but I felt like writing more. So, I wrote a Twitter post asking for addresses from anyone who wanted a postcard. I ended up getting a handful, and sent the cards the following day. I had so much fun and the response was so positive that I decided to make Postcard Night a biweekly event. (Luckily, Spoonbill has plenty of cards for the next time I run out!)
So, here’s the deal. My next Postcard Night will be in one week, on July 23. Want to get one? E-mail me your address, then sit back and wait. You know you want to!
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