This is the first post of my first blog.  A beginning.  My interest in postcards began about 10 years ago.  I was wandering through a flea market, just glancing at stuff with no real interest, when I started leafing through a box of old postcards.  I came across a Christmas postcard written by a young woman.  She had fastened a picture of herself to the card.  I was suddenly touched by the very personal message she had written to a friend, and I felt connected to her across the years.  The card was written 12/17/1908–100 years ago this December.  I was hooked!

A few years later, I started researching my family.  And discovered how much fun it was to find postcards from grandparent’s and great-grandparent’s home towns.  To see pictures of places where they had lived when they had lived there.  Streets and buildings which no longer exist.  I collected quite a few old postcards relating to my family and to my home town–Akron, Ohio.

I still collect old postcards and some new ones.  I have a particular interest in Halloween cards–both old and new.  But, now I am more interested in sending and receiving cards from around the world.  I guess it goes back to what attracted me to postcards in the first place–the connection we make to others over time and space.

So, I’m hoping to show some of the cards I’ve collected over the years and tell a little bit about the places they picture.  But, I’m also going to include the cards I send and receive today and tomorrow.  I always enjoyed geography when I was in school–but everything I learned then is “gone with the wind”.  Postcards are tickets to a new world.     Until my next post.