This is One Thing, a column with tips on how to live. Growing up in Saudi Arabia, I learned cursive with a fountain pen in the third grade as part of the standard curriculum. I wasn’t good at ...

I think it’s because signatures are supposed to be in cursive, or else they don’t count ... Or maybe it was that regardless, eventually you got to use a pen instead of a pencil.

One consequence of our digital age is a decline in cursive, the flowing style of penmanship once considered a common skill. While plenty of people still sign their name in cursive, being able to ...