Send Moore Cards and Share Moore Love in 2026

We are about half way through the first month of 2026 and it feels like it has already been a life time. This year is heavy already!  Not to mention I am still writing the date as 2025 and when I do manage to remember it's 2026, I don't love my sixes. Maybe it's an OCD lettering thing. I don't know about anybody else but I feel like this country is in free fall and I am helpless to do anything about it.  Let's face it, we've been dealing with this shit for a while, but it's hitting me different this year.  On top of all that, billionaires and AI bullshit are taking over the world and sometimes I just want to go back to when we had a land line, recorded mix tapes and wrote letters and sent cards that were delivered by pigeons or ponies.  Ok, I'm not that old but you get it.  

We've all had enough doom scrolling and I don't want to depress anyone but all this is to say, I've been thinking about what can we as a little bitty card company in Baltimore do to make this situation any better.  And my answer is to keep showing up for each other, connecting and sharing Moore love.  Maybe that's cheesy but hey, it makes me feel slightly better.

My word for this year is Connection.  Are we still doing the word thing?  For me that means giving old friends a call, making plans to get together and really doing it, not just saying we're going to do it. This past week our family got together for a family dinner night and we made pasta! It's really better than the box stuff and the point is, we had a great time doing it together. No one looked at their phones!

Connection also means of course reaching out through the mail by mailing that birthday card on time, sending a thank you or a note just because, or even writing letters. Remember when we wrote letters? We like to call it happy mail. And we could all use a little Moore of that right now.

I recently came across this hand written letter that had been saved in between the pages of my well worn baby book.  It was written by my Great Aunt Betty the day after I was born way back in 1972.  Look at that stamp at only six cents!  And yes we've managed to hold on to it for 53 years, making it that much more precious.  

Aunt Betty went on over the course of three pages welcoming me into the world and telling me how lucky I was to be born into our family, all of them beyond excited to meet me down in Baltimore. What a great tradition to start when new babies come into the world! If this doesn't want to make you pick up a pen and start writing a letter, I don't know what will.  We need Moore of this!

Everyone can relate to opening the mail box every day. Do people still check their mail box? Inevitably it's filled with junk, bills, or if you're in Baltimore, a jury summons. Bummer! But then there's that moment when you spot a real piece of mail - a card, hand addressed, just for you. Everything else gets tossed aside and you tear that sucker open! Best feeling ever!

We can all share that heart-warming feeling with everyone we send a card or letter to—and it doesn’t have to be for a birthday, Mother’s Day, or Valentine’s Day. You can send a card just because, and those are often the best ones because they’re completely unexpected.  I pick up cards all the time that I see from my favorite card people (because I can't just send my own!) and keep them in a card organizer box so I always have them at the ready.

And if you need a little extra encouragement to send cards and deliver some happy snail mail, have fun with stamps. Even though they’re seventy cents now, at least we can enjoy choosing ones that make us smile. I personally am a fan of the Betty White stamps but check out Sponge Bob Square Pants and Muhammad Ali stamps came out on January 15th. They are badass! I'm all out of Betty Whites so I might need to pick those up next. Fun fact, Muhammad Ali received an honorary doctorate and spoke at my college graduation. Well, he didn't say much but he didn't need to.

If it was your New Years Resolution to stay connected and send Moore cards or if you just want to share some love when we could all need it most, well we have a card for that.  Happy 2026!