Every Thursday, the Paste staff and contributors will choose their five favorite songs of the week, awarding one entry a ...

To be born today is not the same as being born 40 years ago. Children now enter a world saturated with fear long before they ...

If you turn the hem over and restitch on a sewing machine, the edges will not become ragged from the elements.

Indiana legislators have been filing bills for the 2026 legislative session and some of the bills have a lighthearted goal.

The staff of the Martha Canfield Memorial Free Library invites the public to an in-person talk with Tim Brookes, author of ...

ALEXANDRIA, Va. — If you want to understand how separated our world has become, look no further than the way we write, clean, printed letters stranded on the page, spaced like islands. But inside one ...

Recently enacted legislation now requires elementary schools to teach cursive at some point between first and sixth grades, which means that the diminishing skill will be revitalized for the next ...

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — In an age when students are often working on computers, typing up essays and homework instead of writing them out, the art of cursive writing may feel like a relic of the past.

Remember all the loops, curls, and swirls involved with learning how to write in cursive? Well, movies aren't the only thing that can be rebooted. Cursive has been made part of the ELA Standards' ...

My siblings and I share joint custody of a priceless historical treasure: the letters our parents sent to each other during World War II. My father was stationed in the United Kingdom. Every week or ...

It happens frequently. A young person will ask me to sign a book I’ve written then look at it in awe for a few seconds before saying, “Wow. You know calligraphy!” We have changed our commenting system ...

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