Maryland Baby Boomers introduce the joy of snail mail to an emoji generation

NPR | By Lakshmi Singh

Published August 2, 2026 at 8:08 AM EDT

NPR's Lakshmi Singh reports on how volunteers at a Maryland senior living community are bringing back the art of letter writing with a unique pen pal program. (This story first aired on All Things Considered on July 29, 2026.)

Lakshmi Singh

Lakshmi Singh is a midday newscaster and a guest host for NPR, which she joined in 2000.

See stories by Lakshmi Singh

Support nonprofit, fact-based public service journalism

WEKU depends on support from those who view and listen to our content. There's no paywall here. Please support WEKU with your donation.

Contribute now

Related Content

Why it's so hard to track wildfire smoke — and what you can do to prepare for it

Ayesha Rascoe

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks with Glory Dolphin Hammes, CEO of IQAir North America, about the difficulties of tracking wildfire smoke.
NVIDIA is about to spend $750 billion on AI. Critics are calling it a bubble

Ayesha Rascoe

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe asks Bloomberg AI infrastructure reporter Dina Bass about concerns over circular financing in the AI sector.
Trump says the U.S. and Iran have agreed on a deal

Ayesha Rascoe

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks to Ariane Tabatabai of the the Chicago Council on Global Affairs about potential offramps from the war available to the U.S. and Iran.
Germany's Youth Word of the Year shortlist includes viral 'Doobie Scoot Canoe' meme

Esme Nicholson

Germany's Langenscheidt dictionary publisher awards an annual prize for best new word or phrase as voted by teenagers. This year, the phrase "du bist gut genug"(you are good enough), from a song that went viral, is on the shortlist. It's better known as "doobie scoot canoe."
Everything old is new again: Fro-yo is back for its 'third wave'

Ayesha Rascoe

Frozen yogurt, or froyo, has had waves of popularity, starting in the 1980s. NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks to journalist Rachel Kurzius, who says we're in the midst of a "third wave froyo renaissance."