Write a new year's card

A few minutes of restful encouragement for your weekday

We’ve been delighted to receive a few more Christmas cards this week. You know what I didn’t think when I opened my mailbox? It’s the second week of January, and these people are just now sending me a card!

When I was growing up, my mother always sent her annual family newsletter on New Year's. If not for the tradition of sending cards at Christmas, I think my mother’s method makes a bit more sense. Even if you sent Christmas cards, you might have some people with whom you’d like to share more news than you had time to write in mid-December. And probably all of us have some thank you notes we could send.

In some years, during the week after Christmas, I set up a card-writing station on our dining table so that we could all take turns writing thank-you cards throughout the week. In other years, I have not sent any Christmas cards, and all my thank-you notes hav…