In the greeting card aisles of many stores, sympathy cards are nearly sold out.Credit...Taylor Johnson for The New York Times Supported by By Michael Corkery and Sapna Maheshwari The coronavirus ...

Consumers are buying sympathy and other “care and concern” cards in large quantities in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, contributing to shortages in some Long Island stores. In the case ...

Makers of sympathy cards seem to think that 19th-century diction is a kind of verbal Valium, especially if it’s rendered in italics. But what is the perfect card? Do I even know? I do.

To this day, he gets teary remembering the comfort of the many messages of sympathy posted on his Facebook page. He also treasured the notes and cards that came through the United States Postal ...