Yesterday, I wrote a condolence card to a friend. No matter how many of them I write, each one challenges me with an inadequate feeling. What can I say to offer comfort at such a time of grief? Yet words of sympathy are necessary to write especially now- when so many are dying unexpectedly, due […]
The Multifaceted Art of Writing Letters
September 16, 2013 Much has been written about the “Lost Art of Letter Writing and Handwriting.” Yes, it is rare to see a handwritten address in one’s daily mail. And, yes, cursive writing is disappearing from school curriculum. But is the art of writing letters really “lost,” like the Holy Grail, or gone the way […]
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 […]