Robin Letter

A “round robin” was an old fashioned way of a family (or other geographically distributed group) to keep in touch in the days before social media, email, or even cheap long distance calls. It was basically a packet full of letters that was sequentially mailed to each person in “the robin”. When someone received the robin, that person would remove the letter they had included last time they had it, write a new letter talking about developments in their life, then add the new letter in the packet and send it on to the next person on the list. After the last person, it would be sent back to the first person, and a new “flight” of the robin would begin.

This site is intended to replicate that experience in a modern way appropriate to the internet age, but jettisoning the algorithmic feeds trying to capture your attention typical of social media, in favor of trying to foster a slower, longer form, periodic update to a circle of people who care how each other are doing.