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Ken.... Waaaaaaaaaaah!! I used to have an almost copperplate style handwriting and ENJOYED writing letters and notes (with little hand drawn sketches added 'round the borders) by hand to my friends and family. I also did calligraphy as one of my hobbies and enjoyed THAT, too. <sniffle> (wiping nose on sleeve) <giggle> And Ken, m'friend, I HATE to type!!! SO THERE!!! <--- Barb stamps foot) <size 7> (grin) ASIDE: I may joke while writing this, but I really, REALLY do miss handwriting! Barb Mallut [log in to unmask] [log in to unmask] -----Original Message----- From: Parkinson's Information Exchange On Behalf Of Ken Becker Sent: Saturday, June 28, 1997 10:36 PM To: Multiple recipients of list PARKINSN Subject: Re: FW: No Subject/Ken's List Barb, my handwriting is SO BAD..(HOW BAD IS IT?) That I can't read it myself! Seriously, it was always lousy, I hold my pen in the right hand, but it is angled as if I were left handed, and trying to change that only makes my writing worse. If I take my time, it becomes legible, but barely. Everytime I sign my name it is different. I print everything but my signature, to avoid being sent back to the first grade! I remember when I was first learning to write, we had the really cheap paper with blue lines and chips of wood sticking out all over. I remember the notebooks with the fake marble pattern of black and white, and the cloth binding that tasted like dead horses, (I assume, I never really chewed on a dead horse, unless you count McBurgers as horsemeat) I remember every teacher trying to make me hold my pencil or pen properly. BUT mostlly I remember my first computer that let me stop trying to write with a pen, and type everything fast, then edit the typos later. Life is good with a computer! I hate getting letters that are handwritten anyway, they always have at least a couple of words that are not legible, and I never know if I am getting "a million dollars" or "a messy collar" for example! So I just wait until I get a package and say, GREAT, it's NEITHER, it's just a "ticking bomb".........So feel free to send me a TYPED letter any time. Ken B