Recently, my 8-year-old son received a birthday card from his grandmother. He opened the card, looked at it and said, “I can’t read cursive yet.” Then he handed it to me to read. If you have a child ...

Even though there are many opportunities to take notes with paper pen on paper, the opportunity to be required to handwrite letters as adults is greater than imagined, such as upon receipt of mail ...

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 ...

I was thinking about how increasingly difficult it has become to maintain good penmanship in the internet era. When I was in grammar school, just about all our writing was cursive as opposed to block ...