Thanksgiving cards always feel harder to write than they should. You want to say more than “happy Thanksgiving” but you don’t want to sound like a greeting card aisle wrote it for you. That gap between what you feel and what you actually put on the page is exactly where most people get stuck, staring…
Halloween is one of those nights that hits different depending on who you’re sending love to. Whether it’s for your best friend, your kid, your parents, or the neighbor who always has the good candy, a Halloween card message says more than a quick text ever could. Some people want something short and sweet to…
National Girlfriend Day lands on August 1, and it is one of those little holidays that gives you a real excuse to say the sweet thing out loud. Maybe you want to post about the girl you love. Maybe you want to hype up your best friend. Either way, the words matter more than the…
Some days you want to send him something sweet. Other days you want to text him that your toaster is going through a breakup and watch him try to respond. This list is for those days. Funny texts do something romantic texts cannot. They interrupt his normal, boring afternoon and make him grin at his…
Losing a daughter is one of the deepest kinds of grief a person can carry. Whether she was a little girl or a grown woman with a family of her own, her absence leaves a space that nothing else can fill. If someone you care about is walking through this loss, you probably want to…
She is about to walk back into a classroom, a lecture hall, or her own first period of the day, and somewhere underneath the outfit she already picked out three times, she is hoping this year is a good one. That is exactly the moment a paragraph like this is for. Not a quick good…
Watching your boyfriend head back to school, whether it is his first semester of college, another year of grad school, or a classroom he now stands in front of instead of sits in, deserves more than a quick good luck text. A paragraph says the whole thing you are actually feeling, the pride, the support,…
Some first days are bigger than others. Kindergarten, a brand new school, the first year without a sibling in the same building. A card message written for that specific kind of first day means more than a generic good luck ever could, and it only takes a minute to write once you know what to…
The first day of school is one of those days that feels bigger than it looks from the outside. New backpack, new classroom, new nerves, and somewhere underneath all of it, a kid hoping today goes well. Even the confident ones feel a flutter of something on the walk in. A good wish said before…
Every new school year carries a little bit of hope in it, hope for good teachers, good friends, good health, and a year that goes better than the nerves might suggest. A blessing is a good way to speak that hope out loud before the year even gets started. Whether you are blessing your own…