Be Kind To Your Kids, Write Them Notes

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Debra Messing Wants Parents To Write Post-It Notes To Their Kids

Just loved this news from The Huffington Post about Debra Messing supporting Post-It's campaign Your Words Stick With Them,

New York Times Article on Penmanship

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Surfing through the net about penmanship, I found this interesting article in the New York Times on handwriting tips entitled Op-Art: The Write Stuff.

"American handwriting is in a woeful state. Schools’ insistence on teaching looped cursive handwriting has left a generation of Americans with script they dislike or is often illegible. The Palmer method and subsequent 20th-century methods were based on an ornate style that was difficult to learn and broke down under pressure. 

The loops and curlicues of Palmer and other similar methods obscure legibility. For good reason, one rarely finds looped cursive in print media or computer fonts. We have become a “Please Print” nation. Even worse, we have failed to find a replacement.

But there is hope. We can stop mumbling on the page and become legible writers by turning to a style that existed long before Palmer rendered our world illegible. We can embrace letterforms born in the Italian Renaissance. We can go italic.

The article mentions the woeful state of American handwriting and

The Lake House: Love in Letters

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While starting this blog about handwriting, it was only but serendipitous that The Lake House came on TV. 

If you’ve never seen it (my God why not?!), the film stars Sandra Bullock and Keanu Reeves who fall in love through a series of letters they exchanged through a common mailbox. The twist is that they are from different times: Sandra was in 2006 and Keanu was from two years before but by some cosmic design they are able to correspond and love develops without touching, not even seeing each other but merely though handwritten words.

Such a fascinating and heartwarming story. Aside from the lovely 

Handwritten Letters: Nostalgic and Romantic

Have you received a letter recently? No, not e-mail; I mean a handwritten message on stationery or even just plain paper sent to you through post or personally handed to you or probably left on your desk? I bet you haven’t seen one in the last five years or probably a decade! Writing letters used to be so personal.

20 years ago in high school, I would get no less than three written notes a day from friends and classmates as it was a cherished age of innocence when the craze was getting away with passing notes during classes or