Snail Mail Writing List

[Inkronicity]

I would like to participate in the Snail Mail Exchange. I'm a graduate student in California, in my late 30's, and the mother of 2 children. I enjoy cooking, needlework, music and dance, and foreign languages.

I can correspond competently in English or Bulgarian, and less competently, but with pleasure, in Turkish, Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian, Romanian, German, French, Greek or Russian. I just want to use some of the stationary and inks that I seem to buy compulsively, without having enough use for them!

[BCrawford24]

Hey, I would like to add my name to this list as well. I'm 22, a recent graduate, and teaching English in Madrid. I can understand and write in Spanish and French (more or less), and enjoy games, sports, reading, writing, and traveling. I graduated with a BA in Philosophy and live in Texas otherwise. Thanks.

 

 

Ben

[robeck]

I love to send and receive hand-written letters and I already correspond with a few people here on FPN but I could do with some more!

 

Age, gender and subject matter are irrelevant to me so if you're looking to use up some of that ink and stationery please get in touch. If you want to know a bit more about me click the link below to my website.

 

Look forward to hearing from you...

 

Dean

[dflorida]

Allow me to join in. My bio is posted under my user name. I'm happy to correspond with anyone regardless of age or sex. I have a wide variety of interests including fine papers, pens, target shooting, motorcycles and woodworking.

[glintzie]

I'm in my late twenties and married. I'm a huge geek, but you wouldn't know it by looking at me. I'm a fashion junkie and take great pleasure in styling clothes. I also have a passion for makeup, and I am currently paying the bills through makeup artistry. If you take a peek under the surface you'll find the geek at heart. I love video games, I've been playing World of Warcraft for nearly two years now. Older video game addictions included The Sims franchise, Nintendo console games, and various website games. I read as much as I can find time for when I'm not on the computer. Science fiction has been my genre of choice for a few years, but I also enjoy other types of fiction. I'm devouring the Wheel of Time series at the moment. I've always had a fascination for both office and art supplies. I feel like a kid in a candy store whilst looking at paper, notebooks, pens, etc. I own two ball jointed dolls, and enjoy customizing and designing clothes for them. I like to be outside, especially around water. I am artistic and frequently feel the pull to work on an art or craft project. I find it difficult to express my personality in just one paragraph. A list of things I like to do is far from being a fair representation of me, I'm sure everyone else feels the same way.

 

I would love to correspond with someone that may share an interest, or have a different perspective on life than I do. If you find me interesting enough to want to hear from me, chances are I'd love to hear from you as well. I would also love to find someone to exchange fictional letters with. I saw the idea mentioned here and found it intriguing. We could both decide on an era or some type of connection for our fictional characters to have and then correspond with each other from their perspective.

[Toulouse]

I have a few PenPals and reading their letters is always the highlight of my week. Would enjoy having a few more.

 

I chat about anything and everything. My letters are more like friendly chats with neighbors than formal letters and although I might bore you to tears, at least you'll receive real mail on a regular basis.

 

Age, sex, location - doesn't matter, but it helps if your expectations aren't too high.

 

Cheers,

 

Todd

[The Anachronist]

Although I am a bit nervous about it, I think I'll go ahead and jump in. I've been thinking for a while that it would be nice to start writing again, as I used to do it, for fun, quite a bit. The last several years I haven't been able to but the very recent purchase of my first beloved fountain pen has really jump started me again. Right now it has just resulted in taking some of my poems and babblings from the screen and putting them down in ink, and a journal. Of course I've always liked the idea of sitting and writing letters, and receiving them. Especially from around the world. So I'd love to get letters from those in Europe and the UK, and anywhere else too really. I think it will be great fun, and a good way to relax and maybe even broaden my horizons a bit. As well as another excuse to write with my pen (and justify the purchase of sealing wax and good stationary)!

 

As a bit more of a biography, I'm 26 and live near Seattle, WA. I am pretty well rounded, and have a good eclectic mix of interests. I absolutely LOVE language, language acquisition, linguistics, etc. I have no formal training unfortunately, but love to study and read about it. I also work for a well known language learning company, and have re-learned German, and Dutch both to a conversational ability, but definitely still learning so grammar is a bit rough. So, I'd love to do a bit of correspondence in those languages, especially with any native speakers. I've also just started learning Russian and that is quite an adventure. I must say that my Lamy Studio makes learning Russian handwriting all the more fun! I suppose I'll leave it at that and save the rest for the letters, I hope to hear from someone soon!

[phdezra]

Hi all.

 

I'm a thirtysomething-year-old man living in New York and would enjoy a pen pal (or two or three...). I hesitate to write too much in this posting because I think we should reserve some of the 'mystery' for the actual letter exchanges. My father (here in New York as well, now a retired scientist) had a pen pal in the UK many years ago--he genuinely enjoyed those monthly letters and getting to know the person over the course of years. It was quite special. Presently, I work in Manhattan at a Media/Entertainment company; I enjoy writing, reading, photography, drawing, drinking red wines... anything cerebral... though the last item is questionable...

 

Drop me a private message and we'll get the ink flowing...

 

Cheers,

Ezra.

[Kaustic]

Howdy!

 

Send me a letter...

 

Thanks!

Kaustic

[amsaad]

I too have more paper and thoughts to fill them than time, but I believe this could be an oh-so-enjoyable endeavor! Count me in!

[eldritch stanes]

Hello,

I'm shona and live in a small village called Dundonald which is in Kilmarnock south ayrshire,but i come from a village by the coast called Monifieth in Angus,with my pain in the neck husband who is at this very moment making silly comments about me writing my biography,but i still love him regardless,at least life is never boring.

I'm a young 58yr old with two grown up children boy and a girl who still live at home and are great company,we also have a rescued border collie that we named tess, i've had a few prophetic dreams, also i dream of past close relatives all the time,sense things when i visit different places, i'm interested in ancient scottish standing stones and the ancient celtic peoples history,researching my family tree and it's branches,so far i've researched four.I've recently started to write with a fountain pen,it would be good if i could have a few penpal's to write to.

Shona.

Edited May 1, 2010 by eldritch stanes

[Kirk]

Hey… I’m really enjoying using my fountain pens with my journal and letter writing, but I find I’m kind of limited in how much I can really bore my family with letters! I really think I’d like to get involved with this letter exchange on FPN. I do have one caveat though – I need to exchange only with guys. My wife is a pretty jealous type and she feels that my charms are just too strong for any woman to resist! :roflmho: So guys only please!

 

About me, well I’m an engineer with a BS and MS and now working on my MBA. I’m just about 40 and using the MBA to further move me up within management. I’m not terribly social, but I enjoy a lot of things outside of work such as fast cars, mountain biking, hiking, snow shoeing, and of course fountain pens. I am trying to express myself more now through I guess what I call letter or mail art. I like to decorate my envelopes with stamps, writing, etc. and I like to make my own stationery. This is one of my few creative outlets. I’m hoping that whomever I write to will enjoy my “art” that I like to send out in the mail. Hopefully the letter content is decent too.

 

I guess that’s it, feel free to drop me a PM.

 

Kirk

[countrydirt]

I am a bad correspondent! But, the school year is almost over and we should be closing the deal on our new house in the next two weeks, plus I have recently discovered dip pens (thanks jbb!) and am interested in starting up again.

 

I am a 46 year old, married, father of 3 sons, high school agriculture teacher in Northeastern Colorado. I weld, play guitar in church (today we had a rollicking medley of Are You Washed/I'll Fly Away/Hallelujah, I'm Ready) and enjoy learning more about people. I am an organic gardener, fowl incubator and recently have gotten into raising gamebirds.

 

The rest will have to wait for my introductory letter!

 

Troy

[ajd]

I'm willing to throw my hat into the ring. I'm a soon to be 30 year old that spends way too much time sitting in front of computers. I need to start sitting in front of paper more than the screen. My main interests are home brewing beer at least once a month and reading about history. However, I'd really talk about anything.

[eldritch stanes]

Hello,i was lucky enough to to get several penpals since posting a few day's ago i feel that i can't at the moment take on any new penpals. shona.

[thrage1]

Thrage1

My real name is David. I am a 23 year old college student.

I used to have several pen pals when I was younger and I would like to start up again. I just recently started using fountain pens and would definitly like to get some use out of them. I am a philosophy major, a movie buff, and I always expanding my horizon by learning new things. I'd love a pen pal who I could write to, in order to talk about life interests, (I know we have at least one in common fps) pm me if you are interested and we could start snail mailing thanks for reading.

Edited May 9, 2010 by thrage1

[AlaskanWriter]

Well, having found time again to write in my journals, and send some postcards, I think its time to finally jump in for some letter writing.

 

I have just updated my profile/about me page to more recent info, and its long, you should get a good idea about me from it. Here is a short truncated version though...

 

Male, soon to be 25, Christian(baptist). Single(looking-kinda..). Alaskan by birth and choice, plan to be Alaskan my whole life. Sorta employed(part time, odd jobs, and selling products of my hobbies- and I help out a lot here on the homestead for my room and board). Will try almost anything once, love to learn new skills; I am a renaisance man of sorts, I pride myself on being a "jack of all, master of many" as opposed to the old saying "jack of all, master of none".

 

Main hobbies that are a daily or at least weekly practice include pocket knife collecting and reviewing, woodworking, writing. And lots of auto mechanics... 90% of my time is spent working on my trucks, cars and bikes. Mostly Ford and Chevy 4x4 pickups. You'll definately hear about my truck projects in my letters(I'll try not to get too technical though if your not mechanically inclined/interested.)

 

Am a traditionalist, and prefer to use the older ways of doing things, hate using too much un-needed modern tech. Computers I like for the connections/learning/friends though. Am a country boy; cowboy hats, pickup trucks, and honor. Mostly hate being indoors, love being outside and active/working, but read a lot at times too, mostly sci-fi fantasy and westerns.

 

 

I have no preferences really about who I correspond with, in state or country or out, male, female, or age don't matter. I will not discuss politics, and very rarely will discuss religion. Other than that I'm pretty open if ya thing we might share an interest, or an interesting topic, bring it up! Or just chatter about daily life...

 

I would be very interested in swapping recipies a little if you like to cook, have a favorite etc.. I Love cooking and trying new foods.

 

I figure the fastest I'll be able to correspond is about a weekly letter, giving several days after receiving a letter to order my thoughts etc.. Just a guess though, so shall see how it goes. ;-)

 

Thanks for your time reading this,

Hope to hear from ya soon.

 

Gary.

[eldritch stanes]

I,ve discovered i have the extra time to take a few more penpals if anyone is interested.

Kind regards shona.

[hawkmp4]

I'm Michael, a 19 year old male going to college for applied mathematics. I'm interested in math (of course) and philosophy. I'm willing to discuss ethical issues as well. I play music (bass guitar) in my free time, mostly more extreme metal, some funk. I'd prefer female writers if possible.

[Zeno]

Well, now that University is out for the Summer (and I've graduated), I have the time to craft some letters.

So I'm 21, I have (or will have, when my diploma gets mailed, technically) degrees in Linguistics, Italian Literature and Language, and a minor in Russian.

I don't have much of a theme to pen collecting, because half my collection just fell into my lap – although one pen (a Parker 45) was owned by my Uncle, who is a... senator? in the Trinidadian Parliment. So I'm an American, soon to be law-student, and I speak Italian (well) and Russian (poorly).