Did your friend have a head in this dream?

I do not understand this reference. I'm guessing because I've never seen Serial Mom ?

I think Matt might mean you'd have to be missing your head not to know that Waters was gay, but it could also be a SERIAL MOM reference.

Didn't we talk about this once? [link]

Good penmanship is more than just a quaint skill. A new study shows that it's a key part of learning.

For most people, the written thank-you is your best bet for an expression of warm, heartfelt thanks. The last thing you want is for someone to be disappointed when her hand-knit scarf is acknowledged with a loud, animated e-card." So says the Emily Post Institute, founded in 1946 and still an authority on principles of politeness in today's digital age. And while, in the era of Gawker and YouTube, its earnest advice may seem old-fashioned and out of touch, it does raise the question: does handwriting have a practical use today, or is it just a relic of a bygone era when children listened to their elders? Certainly, notes written by hand have the retro appeal of, say, a gift of homemade apple butter, but apart from the odd scribble of gratitude or condolence, do we really need it?

Many educators say yes, for reasons having nothing to do with thank-you notes. Handwriting is important because research shows that when children are taught how to do it, they are also being taught how to learn and how to express themselves. A new study to be released this month by Vanderbilt University professor Steve Graham finds that a majority of primary-school teachers believe that students with fluent handwriting produced written assignments that were superior in quantity and quality and resulted in higher grades—aside from being easier to read. The College Board recognized this in 2005 when it added a handwritten essay to the SAT—an effort to reverse the de-emphasis on handwriting and composition that may be adversely affecting children's learning all the way through high school and beyond.

Free electronic recycling locations (mostly - not NY) nationwide on Earth Day 4/19 [link]

My brother is dyslexic, and had difficulty learning to read and write until cursive writing was introduced. Something about the letters flowing together made it easier for him to write.

I use script, where the letters don't connect unnaturally. But yeah, I totally love writing by hand.

I'm a little obsessed with my handwriting. When I was in second grade, my teacher used to make me stay in a recess and rewrite my work. I finally learned to do it neatly the first time.

Hubs is away on business. Which means I get all the cat-care duties. Which includes giving pills to three cats.

I'm convinced that, if there's a Hell, it includes having to give a pill all by yourself to a squirming, unwilling 16-pound cat with all his original teeth and claws, plus the willingness to use them.

I have terrible handwriting and doing it hurts my hands. Plus it's a mess with most writing instruments because I'm left handed and I'm forever smearing ink across the page. Handwriting has caused me nothing but HEARTACHE!

I suspect I was not taught properly.

I'm left handed, so cursive penmanship was kind of torture for me. The flow of it always felt forced and akward (and looked like crap, as does my printing, and gets ink/graphite all over my hand).

My handwriting - awful. worse now that I don't write much anymore. and I have lost my ability to read bad handwriting