Unlike probably most people, I enjoy the act of writing by hand — but I’ve always disliked signing my name. Why is that? I think it’s because signatures are supposed to be in cursive, or else they don ...
Unlike probably most people, I enjoy the act of writing by hand — but I’ve always disliked signing my name. Why is that? I think it’s because signatures are supposed to be in cursive, or else they don ...
Editor’s note: This is the second in a two-part series on pens and penmanship. As beautiful writing instruments became more available in the 1800s, an interest in creating beautiful penmanship also ...
Words are an essential means of communication, yet how we put them down in writing has been continuously shaped over time by technologies, cultural and business needs, and education. Once a universal ...
Editor’s note: Kate Coleman has been away. This column first appeared in The Herald-Mail on Jul. 5, 2013. A couple of years ago, my sister Patti visited and brought me items she and her twin Maureen ...
The other day Jim-the-Landlord asked me if I had any stationery. "Not the little thank-you-note kind," he said. "I need to write a letter." Boy, did he come to the right place. Since forever I have ...
The Times asked readers for samples of their cursive and to talk about their relationship with old-fashioned, longhand writing with its loops, curls and dips. A new law will require all California ...
meant to loosen the wrist without straying outside the lines. quick and cursive, on scraps of unlined paper, on the backs of envelopes, wayward, spellbound, reckless, not the disciplined way I bite my ...
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