Stamp of the Day

What, if anything, should be done with the Jefferson Memorial? Or, for that matter what should be done with any one of the hundreds, probably thousands, of schools and other buildings named after Jefferson, including the elementary school in Summit, New Jersey where my mother taught for over two decades. That's the #stampoftheday question brought on by …

Look closely at the image on today's #stampoftheday. When you do, try not to read the words but just focus on the image, which portrays three women dancing with their hands clasped together. And then, using just the image as your guide, try to figure out what the stamp is supposed to honor. You may recognize …

About a year and a half ago, when I first started going through my late father's stamp collection, I was delighted to find a 3-cent stamp, issued in 1957, honoring the 100th anniversary of the American Institute of Architects (AIA). I originally planned to make it the #stampoftheday on February 23, the anniversary of the day …

Over the past year, I've added stamps portraying Frederick Douglass, Susan B. Anthony, and Karl Marx to the many, many knickknacks on three small shelves in my basement office. The stamps - which collectively are today's penultimate #stampoftheday offering—have joined a diverse array of objects that include (in no particular order) a wooden birdhouse my mother …

On April 18, 2020, I wrote a short, paragraph-long Facebook post that started: "though I've had them for years, it's only in the last year that I started to look at my late father's stamp collection." I explained I was posting two images of first-day covers. One from April 18, 1958 with a stamp picturing …