Tag Archives: love letters

Crave: Love Is Blind Vase

Amelia McDonell-ParryMay 20, 2008 //

Designer Jessica Marie Lertvilai had love letters translated into braille and then had them imprinted on this vase. Love is blind, see? [$90, SupermarketHQ.com] Keep reading »

Her Love Will Go On

Catherine StrawnApril 3, 2008 //

Stories about old people in love make us go awwww, even when they’re slightly creepy. For the last 14 years, 75-year-old Wan Fengxia has reportedly been writing letters to her husband, who has been dead the whole time. “If I tell people around me all the time about my feelings, they might get bored,” she explained. “But the letters won’t.” How sad is that? Mostly, she writes about their life together and her current life, and what’s going on in the world. She even keeps him informed about things like the Beijing Olympics and the launch of a space shuttles because he had always followed big news events. [AHN] Keep reading »

The Daily Squeeze: Dutch Animals, Six Women, And John Adams

Catherine StrawnMarch 14, 2008 //
  • The Dutch parliament voted unanimously to outlaw bestiality and pornography involving animals. Previously, Dutch law had forbidden bestiality only when animals were found to be mistreated. One small step for man, one giant leap for horses. [AP]

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    Love Letters That Are Sweeter, More Awkward Than Your Own

    Amelia McDonell-ParryDecember 5, 2007 //

    Have you ever written a love letter? Unless you count the occasionally cheesy emails we send a certain Frisky boyfriend from time to time (“If I come home and the dishes are done, you may just get a blow job!), we’ve only written one real love letter, but we never actually delivered it to its intended recipient. Lucky for us, it didn’t end up in a book! But a whole bunch of others did in the new book Other People’s Love Letters, which is filled with hundreds of real love letters sent over the decades compiled by editor Bill Shapiro. Some are scrawled on bar napkins or childlike doodles, while others are lengthy email odes. Our favorite is the third grade-inspired letter in which the recipient was given multiple choice answer possibilities. Adorable! [Other People's Love Letters] Keep reading »

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