Hippocampus Blog

For those of you who don’t know, we are in Tampa, along the Gulf Coast or western part of Florida. We just came through two back-to-back hurricanes in less than 2 weeks. Helene came and then Milton. Each brought flooding and wind damage. You prepare, put things away and try to protect, you live thro...

How do you know where you are going until you know where you have been? Well, its been ten whole years since we started this journey into all things paper and pen. We started as a stationery shop that created beautiful letterpress and handmade invitations. We started a letter writing group and had c...

The Tampa Bay Letter Writers are participating in a community letter writing project! We have teamed up with the organization: Letters Against Isolation. They are a national and international organization that needs letters to send to seniors in nursing homes, assisted living and other retirement fa...

We are often asked how one can find a group of letter writers in their local area? We hear that most often there is nothing like that in their neck of the woods. So, we say ask and you shall receive! Start one yourself. It’s simple and a lot of fun. Have a meet up so you can find like-minded people ...

by Randy Rosenthal  To understand The Paper Seahorse, you must know Tona Bell.  And if you knew Tona Bell you would understand that an adequate description of the force that is Tona must be told by someone else. She's just not focused on herself in that way.  I'll do my best. "I'm not suggesting th...