This is an op-ed piece my daughter Molly wrote for her college newspaper back in 2016.
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I Still Use My Cursive Skills
My journey from cursive to typing while keeping a little cursive writing skills.
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How beautiful it was…
Not much to say on cursive, although I had perfect cursive writing scores in third and fourth grade.
I liked how beautiful it was, all the curves and the way the style let you keep your number two pencil on the page when you finally got to write whole words and sentences.
Now my handwriting is largely spastic, but can be reflective of my mood and emotional state, smooth and generous, the curves sensual when I feel good, shaky and spastic when I don’t.
Handwriting On The Wall
Mainly what I remember about learning script was that there were letters I liked and letters I didn't like.
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