“Thank-you notes can change the world,” says Kelly Browne, an expert on note-writing etiquette and the author of Ways to Say Thank-You: 101 Notes of Gratitude for Every Occasion.

I've stopped writing thank-you cards and my kids don't have to write them, either. We express our gratitude in other ways.

The article about the loss of writing thank-you notes discusses another lost art. During COVID, I wrote letters to my grandchildren several times a week, in print form, not in cursive.

The one I selected stated, “I want to thank you in writing.” With a Sharpie, I turned the “I” into a “We,” and asked my students to spend the last few minutes of our class writing thanks.