Cursive Writing
They aren't teaching it anymore. I find that fact to be extremely upsetting. And no, I don't think I'm over-reacting. I am merely reporting another tear in the fabric of the cosmos, an earthquake in the course of civilization. How will my grandchildren sign their job applications, their loan documents, their love letters? Will we revert back to the X? Printing does not lend itself to flourishes, although Daddooooo did manage to embellish his otherwise illegible scrawl with the most beautiful g 's imaginable. They looked just like the ones this keyboard is sending to you. Those gardening tools I mentioned yesterday are still talking to me, it seems. My paternal unit is as upset as I am. Some grown ups do not use cursive. G'ma was one of them. Her printing was small and even and precise, just as one would expect of a woman trained as a kindergarten teacher. Almost til the end of her life, that handwriting was a constant. When...