After​ a kind of difficult year (2009) concerning penpalling (both because of work & of people I used to correspond with...long story!) which made me losing as well as having to drop several pals I used to correspond with, I am now back on the right tracks, having sorted out both life & the kind of stressful situation concerning certain people...so I thought I might have a look back here to see if there are still some genuine people left out there!​

I'm​ looking for snailmail penpals only​ (i.e. people committed to stay in touch by writing actual letters to each other)...pal​s who are into writing medium-long & chatty letters on regular intervals​...personal​ly I cannot always write back immediately (especially if it gets stressful at work which is demanding), but I always try to reply back within 1-2 months at the most & would therefore appreciate if pals could write within the same time-range as well.​ Pal​s should have a keen interest in books & travels as well.​

Literature​ & reading (I am an avid & passionate reader: I could not imagine a life without books which I have quite a big collection of…I think I must have at least 850 books altogether so far), travelling, listening to music (I have loads of LPs & CDs as well), going to the cinema & to the theatre, going to cafés (I absolutely love coffee!!!), snailmail-pe​npalling (I adore writing & receiving letters!), history, art, photography & socialising (i.e. meeting up with friends & knowing new people)​

Tom Waits, Nick Cave, Van Morrison, Bruce Springsteen,​ Little Steven, Christy Moore, Tori Amos, The Pogues, Cowboy Mouth, Modena City Ramblers, Kevin Doherty, David Gray, Indigo Girls, Meatloaf, U2, Bob Dylan, Tom Petty etc. etc. etc.

"The Fisher King", "Dead Poets Society"​, "Lantana"​, "Quills"​, "Love Liza", "Monster"​, "Easy Rider",​ "Thelma​ & Louise"​, "Mediterraneo"​, "Peter'​s Friends"​, "Love actually"​, "Four Weddings and a funeral"​, "The Commitments"​, "Childr​en of men", "The Rocky Horror Picture Show", "Lord of the rings" etc. etc. etc.

"The Sopranos"​ and "Six Feet Under"

"The world according to Garp", "A prayer for Owen Meany",​ "The Hotel New Hampshire"​, "The Handmaid's Tale". "Oryx & Crake",​ "The Mists of Avalon"​, "The Clan of the cave bear", "The Bone People"​, "Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance"​, "One hundred years of solitude"​, "A thousand acres",​ "Shadow​ of the wind", "The Kite Runner"​, "The Book Thief" etc. etc. etc.

​"I​f we live our lives the right way then everything we do can become a work of art."​​

"W​ell, isn't it comforting to know that being miserable is still better than being an idiot?"​​

"H​ope comes in many forms."​​

"I​ went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately​, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived … I did not wish to live what was not life, living is so dear; nor did I wish to practice resignation,​ unless it was quite necessary. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like​ as to put to rout all that was not life, to cut a broad swath and shave close, to drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its lowest terms..."​​