From the Mailbox

Mailbox Moments

The notes, photographs, and small moments subscribers send back after the 28th — a recipe cooked on a Sunday, a letter read twice, a stamp saved in a drawer. This is where they live.

Keep them coming — I read every one!

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Notes from the Club

a photograph from Asheville
I opened it standing at the mailbox and read the whole letter before I made it back up the driveway. The leaf rubbing smelled faintly of the outdoors. I have never wanted to keep a piece of paper so badly.

Margaret H.

Asheville, North Carolina

Volume I · Amalfi Coast

We cooked the recipe on a Sunday, propped the photograph of the coastline against the salt jar, and my daughter asked if we could go there someday. That is worth far more than twelve dollars.

Priya N.

Ann Arbor, Michigan

Volume I · Amalfi Coast

a photograph from Portland
The short story undid me a little. I read it twice, once with tea and once out loud to my husband. It felt like being handed somebody's afternoon.

Dana R.

Portland, Oregon

Volume I · Amalfi Coast

I pinned the fun-facts stationery above my desk. Guests always stop and ask about it, and I get to tell them the whole story of where it came from.

Eleanor T.

Savannah, Georgia

Volume I · Amalfi Coast

As a teacher myself, I use the dossier with my class. The children now wait for the 28th the way I once waited for the ice cream truck.

Miguel A.

San Antonio, Texas

Volume I · Amalfi Coast

a photograph from Burlington
Nothing in my mailbox has ever been addressed to me by hand before. I saved the envelope. I saved the stamp. I saved all of it.

Josie L.

Burlington, Vermont

Volume I · Amalfi Coast

Every moment above began the same way — a hand-stamped parcel arriving on the 28th.

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