The Letter Writing Carnival, a day-long affair ... making paper boats and butterflies and sending letters to strangers as pen pals, made me experience the life the elders in my family reminisce ...

At first, Trinity admitted she struggled with what to write. However, as she continued to exchange letters with her pen pal Jordan, her anxiety began to fade. "It was becoming more of a friendship ...

He wanted to expand the impact of his volunteer work and invited his peers to join him in writing letters to senior residents. "The pen pal idea, I didn’t expect it to be this big," Carpenter said.