Despite 50 years of friendship, pen pals Carolyn Evans and Connie McNiel had never met in person. That is, until now.

In the age of e-mail, instant messaging and Twitter, Matthew Esler is an old-fashioned pen pal. Over the past decade, he's corresponded via snail mail with dozens of people, mostly women, from around ...

LATHAM, N.Y. (NEWS10) — A group of local high school students are ditching the convenience of direct messaging online and sending letters the old-fashioned way, through the mail. Their pen pals are ...

WAYNE, Pa. -- "Only difference is now we've been in the same place at the same time," said Krystel Alston about her lifelong friend, Haley Briggs. Alston and Briggs were paired up as pen pals during ...

Some people have one pen pal they exchange letters with on a regular basis. Megan Warantz, a 60-year-old television and movie producer from Oceanside, has 18. Melissa Bedell, a 44-year-old director of ...

Never underestimate the power of a handwritten letter. One dad recently shared the heartwarming story of how his 11-year-old daughter, Emerson, became pen pals with postal workers across the nation.

SINGAPORE: They began exchanging letters in 1982, when they were only 12 years old, and kept at it for 43 years.

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. LIMESTONE COUNTY, Ala. – Residents at an ...

Nearly four months into a strict no-visitor rule due to the coronavirus, an assisted living community in North Carolina tapped into the power of social media to get its residents connected with people ...

Jordan, an undergraduate student at Georgetown University, suggested taking deep breaths to clear the head. Bernadette, a gardener in New Mexico, sent a sketch of flowers in a vase. Frank, a ...

LINCOLN, Neb. (KOLN) - Home Instead, a local in-home care business, hosted a pen pal event on Wednesday to help foster relationships with people in assisted living. A 2020 University of Michigan study ...