This fiasco showed me just how much of my life I, evidently, spend under a rock. Had not heard a thing about this until after it was all said and done, when I walked in on a conversation everyone in my family was having about it. Even my nine-year-old. Lol

Man, this is so sad. Huge loss for American literature.

Odd timing that I picked up a more recent book of his from the library just last week. The Messenger. It’s really cool so far.

RIP

Thanks so much for the recommendations!

Second mention of this one–and I do enjoy golf! Added to the wishlist. Thanks a lot!

I wish I had the time to dedicate to learning enough to know what you’re talking about. This kinda stuff sounds so interesting.

Nice! What ink is this?

See, I was thinking the other way around. I was thinking the prevalence of keyboards largely contributed to the decline in penmanship, rather than providing a way to skirt it.

My middle-school-aged son’s handwriting is hilariously atrocious. Kid is a straight-A student but writes about as well as my daughter, and she’s 8. Every time he has to write something we get a good laugh out of it. Same with other kids his age. His yearbook looks like it was signed by a class of kindergarteners. I figure it’s just because they simply don’t write–ever. Everything they do is on a laptop.

Will be interesting to see how much worse handwriting can get before we just say “fuck it”. Lol