It's not just the "really pretty" script that draws McKinley Elementary School third-grader Alexia Holcomb to cursive writing. "It makes you strong in your hands," the 9-year-old said as she clutches ...

‘Ted is a cat. Mick is a rat. They are pals.’ Like Gregor Samsa, another great soul who shares my initials, I awoke from uneasy dreams one lockdown morning to an onerous responsibility: making ...

The signature of Declaration of Independence signer John Hancock on an envelope. I was thinking about how difficult it has become to maintain good penmanship in the internet era. When I was in grammar ...