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    Why I Write Postcards

    by Peter Wayne Moe Jan 19, 2018 4 minutes

    In 2012 I began referring to myself, in jest, as a man of letters. (I was in graduate school studying English.)  My wife was quick to tell me that if I call myself a man of letters, I should be sending letters. Oh no, I assured her, a man of letters just reads and writes; he doesn’t necessarily have to send letters. But she was insistent that a man of letters should send letters, and so I resolved to send a postcard every Friday. I called it Postcard Friday.

    Worried I’d write the same thing to the same people multiple times, I picked up a

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