The following week, I walked to CVS in Harvard Square to pick up two thank you cards so that students could write in them. I was shocked, first by how few thank you cards there were (I saw just ...

My grandmother loved to send handwritten thank-you notes to everyone in her life ... The writing drill definitely renewed my faith in young people. I realized they can be thoughtful and gracious.

Your thank-you note should capture some of those good vibes and send them right back. Since the medium is the message — and the local drugstore card aisle never seems to cut it — I asked seven ...