How to Flunk Typing 101

My Deplorable Writing Habits

As a writer, I now work almost exclusively on a laptop, which provides me that most miraculous of abilities: the appearance of being an excellent typist. While I do know the QWERTY keyboard, and type using both hands, I look at the keys. My son — born with keyboard attached by umbilical cord— types ten times faster, using two fingers. Sadly, however, he and his cohort can neither write nor decipher cursive, which is rapidly becoming a lost art. (Alas, dear Calligraphy...