Younger generations are driving an old-fashioned comeback: handwritten letters.

According to Business Insider, Gen Z and millennials, tired of the emptiness of digital life, are driving a full-blown letter-writing renaissance.

They’re joining snail-mail and pen-pal clubs. They’re writing to old friends. They’re trading pen-pal addresses on TikTok and Instagram, and they’re devoting time to write and decorate envelopes — and wait weeks for handwritten replies that provide a simple human connection emails can never match.

We all love what digital technology has allowed us to do.

I’m able to keep in touch with more friends than I ever could have with traditional letters. Every now and then I am able to track down a long-lost friend on social media and re-engage through email.

The digital world has allowed me to make new friends, too.

A while back, I made a call to an editor at a big-city paper whom I’d never spoken with before. I called to pitch my column. We chatted for a spell and he agreed to review samples of my work.

A few weeks later he began running my column in the papers he........

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