A confession

I can't write in cursive. My writing, including my signature, is a mixture of print and my made-up cursive letters, which everyone says looks like regular print. I've been talking to Joe a lot lately how cursive is becoming a lost art, and this article pretty much says it all. However, I think it was lost a long time ago. Or maybe that's just how I justify being horrible at it. I remember learning it in third grade for about three of four weeks. We had to write one or two papers using it, but that was when computers were starting to become the big thing, and then switched to typing. So really, the one or two papers that I wrote is all the practice I ever really got!

My cursive is so bad I don't even know how to write some of the letters. I feel somewhat ashamed to admit this, but it proves if it's not taught and practiced, it won't be around much longer. I feel like the same will happen with all handwriting, just like the article says. Joe and I both WRITE letters to Liam about once a month and put them in his baby book. I wanted them to be written, not typed, so he could have something to read and look at down the road. Handwriting says a lot about a person. Although mine aren't in cursive, it's still better than a boring font on the computer!