"Anonymous letters are weaselly and cowardly. Just talk to them," one person replied to the woman's community post Toria Sheffield joined the PEOPLE editorial staff in 2024. Her work as a ...

When Ellen Webster began writing thank-you notes nearly a decade ago, she didn't set out to change her life. Simply, she was trying to hold it together: her husband was diagnosed with cancer, her son ...

I grew up being told the importance of writing thank-you notes. My children began resisting the task, seeing it as tedious and unnecessary. Now, they must write thank you notes before they are able to ...

I realized that I've always written thank-you notes from a place of guilt. I recently decided to stop writing them, and I'm not making my kids write them, either. We express our gratitude in other ...