Great News: The Store is Open!!! Many of my best resources are now available for you to browse and purchase… books by Kitty Burns Florey, Margaret Shepherd, Barbara Getty & Inga Dubay, Nan Jay Barchowsky and Carl Honore. All sorts of handwriting help, inspiration, pens, ink, journals and stationery. I am thrilled to share my […]
“Give your write arm to pen and paper” (letters to soldiers)
November 11, 2010… Veterans’ Day How much thought do most of us give to the war in Afghanistan? Unless we know someone serving in the armed forces, it probably doesn’t cross our minds much. I don’t recall “war” being an issue in this last American election! Why was that? Although I personally don’t feel that […]
Pen, Paper & the Desire to Connect
October 1, 2010 In contemplating a formula for letter writing, I wondered how to keep it simple. Basically, three elements are necessary: pen, paper and the desire to connect. This desire for connection is primary, otherwise there would be no motivation behind the effort. Expressing one’s feelings and stories to another through a handwritten letter […]
How to Choose a Pen, Part 2- “Fountain Pens”
September 26, 2010 “My handwriting is awful….Most people find that using a fountain pen improves their handwriting just a little, as it slows your hand just a bit…a fountain pen can bring out your best.” -Steve Leveen Choosing a fountain pen is both a vote of self confidence and a commitment to the art of […]
“Don’t Write Off the Art of Letter Writing”
By Amy J. Barry Special to Living Publication: The Sound Published 09/09/2010 12:00 AM Don’t Write Off the Art of Letter Writing Call me a word nerd, a hopeless romantic, a dinosaur among the techie crowd, a person who, 10 years in, is still kicking and screaming into the 21st century, but by golly I […]
Step #1 Get a better pen
Sept. 2, 2010 “The biggest single improvement you can make to your handwriting- for ease of writing, reading, and enjoyment- is to write with a better pen.” – Margaret Shepherd from The Art of The Personal Letter. Since your pen is the tool which commits your thoughts to paper, having one that feels comfortable in […]
Quills
August 30, 2010 Kitty Burns Florey mentions in Script & Scribble that the quill was used for twelve centuries!!! The computer age is maybe 30 years old, tops? In that brief span of time many people are relinquishing their ability to write by hand. There’s another human skill threatened with extinction. Makes me wonder, what […]
Script & Scribble
August 25, 2010 The Rise and Fall of Handwriting by Kitty Burns Florey “I took a stroll through the pen department at a nearby office supply store, fifty feet of writing implements: ballpoints, fountain pens, rollerballs, gel pens, felt-tips, highlighters, bold points, fine points, superfine points, micro points, needle points, comfort grips, super-comfy grips, rubber […]
a handwritten Thank You note
August 20, 2010 I am continuously flabbergasted by the culture’s downplay of humanity in the present day’s ever increasing worship of technology. Handwriting is very human. It is no wonder we mumble on the page. If the computer is perfection, with its spell check, delete button and that clear crisp impersonal type, handwriting will always […]
“Mumbling on the page”
August 16, 2010 Do you like your own handwriting? Can others read what you wrote? Can you? Barbara Getty and Inga Dubay (WRITE NOW) describe bad handwriting as “mumbling on the page.” Too often, I hear people express gratitude for the computer because they are embarrassed by their own handwriting. “My handwriting is horrible.” OK, […]
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