Let’s Bring Back the Thank You Note

Given our age of technology, a note of thanks sent through the mail has likely gone the way of the Remington Electric Typewriter and landline telephones.
Let’s Bring Back the Thank You Note
After some special dinner or party, following a job interview, or when we receive a promotion at work: these are ideal occasions to show our gratitude for the thoughtfulness of others. Cultura Motion/Shutterstock
Jeff Minick
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A retired teacher meets a former student, learns she is discouraged about her life, takes down her address, and mails her a copy of Charles Murray’s “The Curmudgeon’s Guide to Getting Ahead.” A woman works 12 hours a day from her home, writing memos and editing reports sent to her by her supervisor, trying her best to keep the company afloat in this time of quarantine. A husband and wife struggling to pay their rent are given $1,000 by a friend’s father.

So what do the teacher, the secretary, and the friend’s father share in common?

Jeff Minick
Jeff Minick
Author
Jeff Minick has four children and a growing platoon of grandchildren. For 20 years, he taught history, literature, and Latin to seminars of homeschooling students in Asheville, N.C. He is the author of two novels, “Amanda Bell” and “Dust on Their Wings,” and two works of nonfiction, “Learning as I Go” and “Movies Make the Man.” Today, he lives and writes in Front Royal, Va.
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