Unlike probably most people, I enjoy the act of writing by hand — but I’ve always disliked signing my name. Why is that? I think it’s because signatures are supposed to be in cursive, or else they don ...

Goodness, I hate writing cursive. Some people love it. They enjoy and admire the flourishes, the art and the discipline that go into writing “longhand.” (Does anybody use that word anymore?) My late ...

We’ve all heard the whispers. Those southpaws among us supposedly have some kind of secret intellectual edge. From Leonardo da Vinci sketching with his left hand to Einstein supposedly jotting down ...

(For the record, when asked about her own handwriting, Wright said, modestly, that “people tell me I have very nice handwriting.” In fact, when she was a girl, the right-handed student even practiced ...

Aug. 13 is my favorite holiday. It’s true, there isn’t much hoopla. In fact, each year I eagerly open my mailbox prepared for the cascade of cards celebrating International Left Handers Day. The next ...

As school-age children increasingly rely solely on digital devices for remote- and in-class learning, many K-12 school systems around the world are phasing out cursive handwriting and no longer ...

Left-handed kids haven't had it easy. For many centuries, people thought that doing things with your right hand was proper & pure, while doing so with your left hand was practically a sin. It's a ...

Today is National Handwriting Day! When you think of handwriting, you may think of the way you write your name or your penmanship during notetaking but what about the way you write? In today’s time, ...

Around 10% to 12% of the world’s population is left-handed. While being left-handed can be considered advantageous in certain ways, it can also be inconvenient and even carry a stigma in certain ...