Month: June 2010

 There has been much lament that the art of letter-writing has died, which is not really true. We are probably writing more letters to one another now than ever before. Although they are brief, with much shorthand used, they are still–in a way, letters. But they are not handwritten. In the course of a year, I now receive only a half-dozen pieces of handwritten correspondence. (For those of you who no longer remember what handwritten means, it means written by a human, with a writing implement, in their own individual unique handwriting.) Look at your mail. You’ll see that hardly anyone physically writes anything anymore. Soon the pen aisle at Staples will contain only those with built-in USB drives. A few birthday cards, a holiday card, an invitation or two, but even those are usually done by robot to look like expensive calligraphy. Most package labels are printed on computers, as are address labels. Sorry, but Comic Sans is not handwriting. Continue