which was designed to ease the transition from printing to cursive with its curly tails on every letter. We practiced our D’Nealian (So fancy! So grown-up!) on something called Zaner-Bloser ...

while elegant flourishes of cursive sashay across the page. Free-spirited scribbled letters trip over each other, and distinctive dashes help direct traffic. Some crossed t’s and dotted i’s stand ...

Letters of each word gracefully flowed from one to the ... The girls’ father, Steve Wynn, translated Grandma’s cursive handwriting into more familiar block letters for them and before long ...