Hello Kurt!

** On Wednesday 11.08.21 - 09:41, you wrote to me:

 KW> I'm left-handed, was taught to orient the paper the way a
 KW> right-hander does, so I hook my hand over the writing -
 KW> which has resulted in a lifetime of smeared writing and
 KW> poor cursive.

Lefty here too.

One day, (I couldn't have been older than 7 or 8) my parents  
tried to insist that I should write with my right hand. I was  
afterall right-handed in every other way: holding a bat, a gun,  
a bow, throwing a ball, etc.  They gave me home writing  
lessons, but I simply switched to my left hand when they walked  
out of the room and I switched back to the right when they  
walked in.  One day I got really really tired of that, and  
confessed.  But the brief foray (about a couple of hours for a  
week) into forced right-handed writing kind of produced a  
modest ambidextrous trait in me.  Occassionaly, I would switch  
to my right hand just for fun.

 KW> I never took typing classes in high school, so I hunt-and-
 KW> peck, albeit very quickly.

Typing was an easy Gr 9 course. It also proved to be very  
useful later on. But one thing that I really appreciate  
learning later in high-school was Forkner shorthand. That  
proved helpful when taking notes in university.



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