The ability to sign your name is one of the best reasons to learn cursive writing. Even with all the digital ways you can dodge handwriting, often one needs to “sign the pad” for a transaction. So what do you do? Scribble or print? Your signature or your “John Hancock,” as it is sometimes referred […]
Letters as history
August 28, 2011 Abagail and John Adams wrote over 1200 letters to each other over the course of 60 years- from their 6 year long courtship till John’s retirement from politics. These letters give us a very personal history of a marriage enduring alongside America’s revolutionary beginnings. What a marvelous resource these intimate letters are […]
Michelangelo’s autograph
August 5, 2010 If you could choose anyone for their autograph, past or present, whose would you choose? I asked my friend, Jim Rose, this question and with little hesitation he announced: “Michelangelo, it’s only one word!” Me? I’d ask Isadora Duncan to sign a scarf. The dictionary defines autograph as: a person’s own signature […]