This and That
(My bougainvillea is blooming!)
This week was all about getting things done, and we were extremely busy, busy, busy. We’re looking forward to a calm and quiet weekend after the bustle of brewing tonight. Here are a few things that caught my attention this week.
Is it necessary to teach kids cursive writing?
Did you watch “The Bletchley Circle” last Sunday on PBS? I did, and I’m hooked! I swear, I was really cut out for life in Britain in the 1940s and 1950s. I’ve got the hair to prove it.
I’ve been catching up on “Mad Men,” and why is Lindsay Weir kissing Don Draper? It grosses me out. A lot. He’s old enough to be her dad, but she’s supposed to be his mom. What is going on here?
As a kid, did you read From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler? It was one of my most favorite books, and I think it helped fuel my love for art. The author passed away last weekend.
How to bring a little of the Art Deco period to your home, Gatsby-style.
And how you can help keep politics out of design in Texas. Seriously, y’all, it’s not a crime to have good taste.
My new blog design should be installed over the weekend, so my site might be down for a bit as that takes place.
Have a wonderful weekend!
I’m a huge proponent of cursive writing. I heard murmurs of this for a few years and it makes me so sad. It’s truly an art form.
I really believe kids should be learning cursive writing, and for the reasons they talk about for the ability to create a signature and to be able to read all sorts of documents. I am looking around my work space and there is so many items that are writing in cursive. Even if they take it out of schools when I have kids I will be teaching them cursive at home.
Cheers,
Alli
Alli, thank you so much for stopping!
I think the whole cursive argument is very interesting, because it definitely seems to be a dying art. At the same time, I wonder how useful it is to spend weeks and months teaching it in school these days, when everything is so digital now. I’m sure by the time my boys are in college, they won’t be jotting notes in a notebook, like I did.
I remember trying to learn cursive as a kid — I went from a school that didn’t do it to one that did, in grade one — and it was so hard! I never use it now.