hootnoodle

Personal mail is always a delight, especially letters and cards with interesting or colorful stamps, and a personal note. All types of cards are most welcome. If you want suggestions, my favorite international cards are single view cards with pictures of your country - UNESCO World Heritage sites, scenery, buildings, local people, city views, etc. Among non-view cards, I LOVE Inge Look's old ladies, Norwegian trolls, Diddl, maps, and cards reflecting local culture.

For US postcrossers looking for ideas for tags and round robins, I especially like national, state, county, and city parks, libraries, courthouses, COVID-related, science and math, and political, but I'm really not picky at all. It would be great to receive any card that makes YOU smile, with an explanation if not obvious. Don't worry about avoiding duplicate cards. The personal notes on the back make each card unique. I also welcome handmade cards or those with your photos.

I like reading, travel, family activities, live theatre, walking, and bookcrossing. (See my profile, http://bookcrossing.com/mybookshelf/hootnoodle. There's even a small picture there from our 2007 trip). My husband and I have been married 49 years and have two adult children. We both retired in the summer of 2015, and hope to take many more trips, both near and far. We have season tickets for three theatres, and are volunteer ushers at the local Washington Center for the Performing Arts.

I hope that projects like this with person-to-person connections help people see each other as individuals. Our governments do not always represent us well. I certainly disagree with almost everything in the Trump administration, which seemed intent on trashing most of the values that I hold dear. After the 2020 election, it felt like I could breathe again. Now I'm getting scared once more.