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As society grows more interconnected and reliant on technology, the old ways of keeping in touch wane in influence and popularity. That’s the way of the world, it seems, and woe to anyone who waxes ...

In January 2018, I was commuting from Brooklyn to New Jersey. I have two little kids and a busy consulting business, so a quiet train ride felt like a mini-vacation. Yet I found myself spending that ...

DEAR ABBY: Some time ago, you printed a letter from a grandmother who said she was changing her will because neither her adult children nor her grandchildren ever wrote her thank-you notes when she ...

Dear Heloise: The concern over the lack of thank-you notes in today’s society is ongoing, and the solution seems elusive. Thank-you notes suffer from being categorized as old-fashioned and passe, but ...

I grew up being told the importance of writing thank-you notes. My children began resisting the task, seeing it as tedious and unnecessary. Now, they must write thank you notes before they are able to ...

DEAR MISS MANNERS: What do you do when the duty to write thank-you notes overwhelms any genuine sense of gratitude? In my own upbringing, reciprocity and eagerness to give were prized over the finer ...

I have a few old cards and notes pinned to the bulletin board on my office wall above my desk. A few more cards hang by magnet on my refrigerator door at home. A stack of old ones are tucked inside a ...

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