When did you last write a handwritten letter?

The other week I wrote a thank you note to a lady that I worked with who sent me a picture she found of when I had worked there. I really appreciated the thought. A text, email or even a call just didn't seem to be right, so I wrote the note & mailed it.
 

We have hand-written letters dating back to the mid-19th century. We enjoy occasionally looking back to times now gone. Reading a letter from a long lost relative or friend, some of whom we never even met, is in a way like a visit personal from them.

It makes me sad that, for my grandchildren, such keepsakes will essentially end with our generation. 🥲
 
My mother was one who wrote long newsy letters, and our family even the children would read them. Our oldest brother was the same way. He didn't have much to say on the phone, but each year with a birthday card or Christmas card, there would be a handwritten note enclosed. Those notes weren't very long but there were always meaningful thoughts. My wife buys cards, birthday cards for each occasion for our children and grandchildren.

She will bring the card to me and say this is for which ever particular person it is to be sent to. She knows that I take it to my desk and quietly write a personal note in the card. Twenty-four years ago our youngest child died in a car wreck. Among our treasured memories of him is a handwritten note in a father's day card, "Thank you for all you do for me", that's all it said; it's enough. In his Bible we found words that were special to him, and they are engraved on his grave stone.

Take the time to leave some written words for those you love, they will be appreciated.
 

I find it difficult now to write by hand.. In a very short period of time.. my hands have become so painful it's difficult for me to use an ordinary pen... just yesterday I bought some chunky pens, the type with several coloured inks,

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so I can continue to write my dairy... it's less painful using a fat pen... however if it keeps going at this rate the OA in hands will soon put a stop to that as well
 
hollydolly said:
I find it difficult now to write by hand.. In a very short period of time.. my hands have become so painful it's difficult for me to use an ordinary pen... just yesterday I bought some chunky pens, the type with several coloured inks,

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so I can continue to write my dairy... it's less painful using a fat pen... however if it keeps going at this rate the OA in hands will soon put a stop to that as well
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My cursive handwriting tends to become less easy to read with each word, and so I print my hand written notes rather than have the reader being faced with the challenge of trying to make out my words much less my thoughts.
 
TennVet said:
My cursive handwriting tends to become less easy to read with each word, and so I print my hand written notes rather than have the reader being faced with the challenge of trying to make out my words much less my thoughts.
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I've always been a fairly decent writer..I don't write cursive, unlike @horseless carriage who has displayed his writing prowess here many times... but I've always enjoyed writing by hand.. this was an example of my handwriting a little while back for a thread on here...

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I can still write like that.. but only using a Fat Pen now... and then after a short time it becomes more scrawly because my hands get too sore...

The sad thing about it all is that, this has happened very suddenly.. within the last few weeks despite having the OA for at least 10 years .. . it's heartbreaking... I just presumed that I'd always be able to write by hand
 
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hollydolly said:
I've always been a fairly decent writer..I don't write cursive, unlike @horseless carriage who has displayed his writing prowess here many times... but I've always enjoyed writing by hand.. this was an example of my handwriting a little while back for a thread on here...

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I can still write like that.. but only using a Fat Pen now... and then after a short time it becomes more scrawly because my hands get too sore...

The sad thing about it all is that, this has happened very suddenly.. within the last few weeks.. . it's sad... I just presumed that I'd always be able to write by hand
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Two of our children have very neat hand writing like their mother, the other two children and I present a challenge when writing in cursive. The strange thing is all four of the children went to the same school and had most of the same teachers, especially in their early days when hand writing would have been taught.
 
TennVet said:
Two of our children have very neat hand writing like their mother, the other two children and I present a challenge when writing in cursive. The strange thing is all four of the children went to the same school and had most of the same teachers, especially in their early days when hand writing would have been taught.
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strange... but it just must be the way the Brain works....
 
Nathan said:
I'm guessing back in the early 2000s, in a reply to my Aunt Becky, who had informed my that my Uncle Carl had passed. My handwriting has always been poor, being a southpaw a big part of it.
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yes difficult when you're a leftie. My youngest sister is a leftie... and of course lefties write across their words so to speak... so it's more difficult for you to see what you've written

My sister is the only one in our family who is an artist... and designer... and I have a theory that you're more likely to have artistic tendencies if you're a Southpaw..
 
hollydolly said:
yes difficult when you're a leftie. My youngest sister is a leftie... and of course lefties write across their words so to speak... so it's more difficult for you to see what you've written

My sister is the only one in our family who is an artist... and designer... and I have a theory that you're more likely to have artistic tendencies if you're a Southpaw..
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Yes, this is the story of my life:

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hollydolly said:
I find it difficult now to write by hand.. In a very short period of time.. my hands have become so painful it's difficult for me to use an ordinary pen... just yesterday I bought some chunky pens, the type with several coloured inks,

61L-6DMJ8ZL._AC_UF350,350_QL80_.jpg

so I can continue to write my dairy... it's less painful using a fat pen... however if it keeps going at this rate the OA in hands will soon put a stop to that as well
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I never had a great cursive script , but a really decent printed one .

Now I too have just chicken-scratch for either.

Maybe I'll try a larger diameter pen as well ?
 
My daughter was taught only one year to write cursive & the next year it was dropped at the schools. She continued to practice cursive on her own & was doing her school in cursive when one day a classmate of hers was handed a paper to read & the girl was unable to read it. She printed from then on in school. I encouraged her to keep up with it & she did. I also told her it's a good reflection on a young person who can write & read cursive today.

After she graduated, her cursive & handwriting improved greatly & that was when she got into fountain pens. For a lefty, she has readable writing.

My husband has chicken scratch for cursive. That's due to years of handwriting his reports before computers were in cruisers & the districts to use.
 
I really can't remember when I last sent a handwritten letter to anyone. I do remember that snail-mail was the only way I communicated with friends and family members when I was traveling overseas for most of the 1960s.
 
Lilac said:
My daughter was taught only one year to write cursive & the next year it was dropped at the schools. She continued to practice cursive on her own & was doing her school in cursive when one day a classmate of hers was handed a paper to read & the girl was unable to read it. She printed from then on in school. I encouraged her to keep up with it & she did. I also told her it's a good reflection on a young person who can write & read cursive today.

After she graduated, her cursive & handwriting improved greatly & that was when she got into fountain pens. For a lefty, she has readable writing.
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Well done and compliments to your daughter. Look very closely at this pen nib. Designed for writing in Italic script. The nib is angled so that you are unable to tell that it's a left hander's writing.
 
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This letter I posted previously, what's amusing is that a customer didn't believe that anyone could write like that, insisting that I must have had some sort of alphabetical tracing guide. Sometimes only seeing is believing.
 

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