It’s time for another installment of “Random Acts of Letter Writing“! (These are quickly becoming my favorite pasttime!)

Our “victim” this time will be Richard B. Griffin, prolific columnist, who has recently written an article about letter writing for Wicked Local Cambridge. In this article he speaks of writing letters to his friend Bob, but also mentions the father of essayist Anne Fadiman who said, “the morning mail functions as the voice of the unpredictable and keeps alive for a few minutes a day the keen sense of the unplanned and the unplannable.”

So, let’s be inspired by this. Go read his article, then go forth and help Mr. Griffin keep alive the keen sense of the unplanned. He can be reached at:

Richard B Griffin
17 Howland St
Cambridge, MA 02138-1919

Just so none of you think I’m a big, creepy stalker… his phone number is on his web page and his address is easily searchable in the online white pages and I matched the two up. I think someone who puts his phone number on his web site probably isn’t too worried about someone like me finding him.

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I was standing in the kitchen cooking spaghetti and catching up on some email at the same time (quite the multi-tasker, I am) and suddenly a message arrived from Nigel Alston, our latest Random Acts of Letter Writing victim!

Mr. Alston accepted our guerrilla letter writing most graciously and even surprised me by writing about it at his newspaper! So, I do encourage you to wander on over and read his lovely tip-of-the-hat in our direction. Also, pay special close attention to the responses he got from friends from his letter writing at Lent (which is how this whole thing started). It will inspire you by reminding you why letter writing is important and valuable.

Have you written a letter today? Go do that while I run off to look for our next “victim”!

(Thanks, Nigel.)

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Okay, I’ve found our next “victim” of random acts of letter writing.

Nigel Alston of the Winston-Salem Journal wrote a great column about an acquaintance of his who wrote a letter for each of the 40 days of Lent. Mr. Alston says he was inspired by his friend’s tradition and decided to try it himself and found it gratifying.

I think it would be nice to send Mr. Alston a note and tell him how great he is for passing along the inspiration to his readers. I hope you will do another one of these with me since it turned out to be so much fun with Erin. Who knows what will happen.

Here is the article: Sending a Note of Thanks Give the Season Meaning

Here is the address:

Nigel Alston
c/o Winston-Salem Journal
P.O. Box 3159
Winston-Salem, N.C. 27102

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