They had machines to do their work for them: solve problems, cipher numbers, and print writing.

Keyboarding and print writing will still have their place, but legible penmanship will be required by third grade.

But I have also spent over 20 years in print writing, editing and directing shoots for magazines, and even co-created a national publication from scratch.

Now I always know when one of their birthdays has arrived by the queer package, addressed in old Jane's quaint half- printed writing, that always comes.