Me and my fellow Xennial zeigeistians learned a specific printing method called D’Nealian, which was designed to ease the transition from printing to cursive with its curly tails on every letter.

Me and my fellow Xennial zeigeistians learned a specific printing method called D’Nealian, which was designed to ease the transition from printing to cursive with its curly tails on every letter.

Training the left hand to contort and make the flourishes in cursive left me with headaches (and a D in penmanship in second grade). I eventually learned to write cursive with a straight left hand ...