Zora
Around the end of my first trimester, which also coincided with my graduation from the University of Texas in May 1996, I …
I Be, Yubi
I dropped four postcards in the outgoing apartment mail today and then opened my mailbox: junk mail, a magazine, and a YubiKey …
The Porcelain Boy
When I was 22, I received a letter from Brian. Finding this letter a few months ago was like finding a piece …
Stay Streetsmart
After visiting Austin over spring break in 1990, I dropped out of KU and moved down here on January 5, 1991. Nine days …
Long Live the Fan Club Newsletter (in Print)
The year was 1989 and I was working as a waitress in a cocktail bar… I kid, I kid. The year was …
Little Rickie, NY
A former roommate of mine took a trip to New York to visit a few of our friends during spring break in …
Living on $800 a Month
One of my former roommates moved from Lawrence, Kansas, to Seattle in 1990. She mailed me a 3-page letter that November, and …
Don’t Get Married
In 1991, I received this retro postcard of a movie poster for 1944’s When Strangers Marry.
Closet Cleaning
A couple of months after I moved back to Austin, I got a postcard from a friend who was visiting her mother …
Ode to Snail Mail
The Diction Fairy project started in 2013, when I bought the dictionfairy.com domain name because it was available. Scratch that. The project …