For me, the daughter of small business owners, winter and the holidays meant more family time at the dining table, not just to eat but to handwrite thank you notes to our customers. My brother would ...

Dear Eric: I may be hopelessly old-fashioned at 73 years old, but when my children were young and received a gift, I gave them notecards, stamps, addresses, and explained the ways a “thank you” could ...

There once was a time when gift cards were frowned upon and deemed thoughtless, lazy, impersonal, even tacky. To give a prepaid certificate instead of a tangible object beautifully wrapped up in box ...