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National Handwriting Day: Celebrating a Lost Art
Pencil News, Writing LessonsCelebrate a Lost Art on National Handwriting Day
Happy National Handwriting Day, everyone! I hope that you awoke to find new, freshly-sharpened Blackwings in your pencil cup and stacks of fresh notebooks on your desk, just waiting to be filled…

Word by Word: The Lost Art of Penmanship
Pencil NewsThe Lost Art of Penmanship
I peer through the magnifying glass, squinting at the delicate letters in front of me. They are as thin and spidery as the webs I bushed away when I took the letters out of their battered cardboard box, and my eyes…

Mother’s Day and Memory – Finding the Write Words
Pencil NewsMother's Day and Memory
We’ve written a lot about the importance of a things that are hand-written over the last year, from thank-you notes to autographs, music lyrics and love-letters. It may sound hack-y when I say that I truly believe…

Of Hand and Heart: In Defense of the Love Letter
MUSIC, Pencil News, TV, FILM & BOOKSOf Hand and Heart: In Defense of the Love Letter
I’ve got a bone to pick with Valentine’s Day.
And, no, it’s not because I was left eating a box of chocolates alone on Tuesday night.
It’s because of the plastic coating the whole…

