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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 ...

Oh the hours I spent on the circles, round and round, row after row of circles created with a Number 2 pencil. Generally they were followed by slanted lines, up and down, up and down, always with a ...

I have always been proud of my handwriting, a skill I was taught in grade school by the Sisters of St. Joseph. Their forte was teaching us the Palmer Penmanship Method, drilling into us the importance ...