Well, a few days ago, on the news they said there will be no teaching of cursive longhand. What can you do, that was surely coming with less and less people interested in writing longhand. The penmanship will suffer. I was brought up liking first Natalie Goldberg, “Writing down the Bones.” In this she uses an inexpensive Sheaffer and write as much as you like, get the writing going. I bought other books by her but met the books of Julia Cameron which also prefers the pen on paper. There are many good things about writing on Microsoft office fixes one spelling. Yet, to me as others I met on the way writings has been a thrill. It gives you the action one can write anywhere there is a pen, if one decides to write one’s story or poems they are so much better writing them much longer if one has pen them. The writing of one’s hand is something personal like art; yet, people are living too fast a pace to fully appreciate it. It doesn’t take much to learn it in elementary so why this finality to end it, so the teachers won’t complain for children to write neater. I guess cursive writing will go the path of calligraphy. Hopefully, this will inspire writing with more unique pens; seek them out as a folk art maybe on the net. This is a Stipula Vedo, Italian pen, my favorite with a bottle of Waterman ink