Signed, Midwestern Redhead

I have plenty of things I obsess over. Food, Netflix, dogs, reading, writing movie scripts and stories, my friends, etc, etc. Some things I obsess over in secret that no one will ever know. One of them is my guilty traveling pleasure and that is driving through old fashioned looking downtown roads. I know you guys are probably thinking that sounds weird, but everyone has their quirks. Let me explain why this is one of my favorite things in the world. My obsession started a few years ago when my dad and I were heading up someplace in Minnesota to go camping. We drove through this one small town and I sat up from my movie and had to look out the window as we drove through the center of town. There was an old fashioned movie theater and buildings whose facades hadn't changed from the 1920's or above. The way things are set up in these towns are the craziest things you will ever see. One of the towns we drove through, a whole block had this layout: a Verizon store, a small coffee...

I know that I'm an old fashioned person when I say that I like to write. I used to write all the time in elementary and in 3rd grade, they taught us to write in cursive in these little activity books where you would trace the lines until you could write normally. Eventually in 5th grade we learned to try to type and I hated it. Now, I'm typing this on a computer at an incredible rate. Technology is becoming advanced, so should we be still teaching handwriting or is it a lost cause? I'm going to be honest with you guys, technology will eventually take over the need to actually write, but who knows how long that will take. It's one of the very first things that you actually learn in preschool/ kindergarten. You learn how to write the letters of your name, the rest of the alphabet, and numbers 1-10. You start writing from the age of 3-4 and you progress your spelling and grammar over time. Some like this better than others (myself compared to my friends). How you learn t...