Texting and twittering have quickly replaced what is now considered “old-fashioned” emailing.  Even Twitter has dwindled to “X.” Messages by pen and paper are now relegated to the attic; dusty and antiquated.  Time, and typeface, both march on. Handwritten correspondence has been obsolescing since man first etched a figure on a cave wall. Those clumsy hieroglyphics didn’t last long – who can spell hieroglyphics without a dictionary anyway?  But the move from cave wall to tree bark to parchment to Gutenberg press sped up the ability to transmit our thoughts. And now, in an instant, we express love with a tiny heart (in any color) and fling an insult with a poop emoji (it smiles). It seems hieroglyphics have resurfaced – without grammar and punctuation (that’s a topic for later). In the meantime, write a letter to your mother. In cursive.