I’ve been doing a lot of handwriting practice lately, playing with fountain pens in my old Hobonichi Techo. There is something very satisfying about it… but also frustrating, as I aspire to a level of fluid elegance that I don’t think I’ll ever attain! So I was quite amazed to see the image below as … Continue reading The History of Handwriting →
I am lucky to have grown up in an era when learning cursive was mandatory. In first grade, I was in an open classroom where we were combined with second graders for some activities, but the older half of the class went off on their own to learn cursive. I have a very vivid memory … Continue reading Learn to Write Cursive →
Notebooks, journals, sketchbooks, diaries: in search of the perfect page…