Hi Brenda....I just wrote you in my post! Go under "Reading Materials" in the conversations section. The Ladies gave excellent ideas once you know what is allowed to be sent. Most are men, but can apply to our female loved ones too!

Hi! Find things that she likes it could be fashion craft stuff or stuff that you can do together....believe it or not me and my love used to watch the same shows on tv or read the same books i know it sounds odd but hey it worked!
As far as sending them stuff check with the place first (books and magazines and papers ) each place has different rules. You might even try sending her letters on pretty paper give her something different to look at yes i did that and i used colourful envelops for his letters.

Thank you, you have been a great help.

At first I didn't think my 25 yr old son would want to hear what was going on with everybody else since he couldn't be there but he said he actually 'likes' hearing all that cuz it makes him feel connected. That way that don't feel so completely left out.
I write my son daily, like a journal of what I've done, what's going on in town, what neighbors are doing, anything I can think of. Sometimes they are just short little paragraphs & other times they are longer. I date each day so it's almost like a calendar to him as well.
Then when I have several days worth, I print it off & mail. It even got him to journal what he does in the way of workouts, etc cuz their days tend to all run together. Hope this gives you some ideas!

great ideas. thanks. I just sent her a letter of several pages. One was just what was going on around here. I talk to her almost every day so not really much to tell, but I did ask her advice on something. The a page with a bible passage of encouragement. then one with facebook messages from her friends wishing her a happy birthday. One with pictures of facebook quotes. etc. sent her some daily devotions material. The jail said she can take religious material to prison with her. So your alls advice was great. Thanks

Suchaslife mentioned they watched the same shows on TV at the same time. We do that too. Last night he said what show he was watching, seemed interested in it. I was actually watching it too, so he said, I am going to go back to watch it now, and know that we are doing something " together". It was nice because we could talk about it and comment who we thought should win. One of those talent shows. Singers, dancers, and acrobatic stuff. So I watched it and pictured him laying in bed watching it.

I also make a copy of newspaper articles about things in our home area that have happened, that he would like to hear about. Funny police logs of idiotic things people call the cops for, etc.

Awhile ago, I read that people were actually caught living in the woods right behind us. Don't know if they were homeless or fugitives, or what. It was a big deal, and I did not even notice. He thought it was pretty interesting.

We now have a fugitive last seen in our area. He shot a person in a town near where mine is in prison, then fled to a town we moved from 5 years ago. Our favorite town. This is a small, resort community that not much happens. A SWAT team was sent to where he had been seen. They missed him. So now he is somewhere, could be anywhere near here. So many places to hide. I am copying that article to send him. Can't send the newspaper, against the rules.