I like the finer things in life and so one of the things I like is fountain pens. Being a teacher I always have two fountains pens with me, one red ink and one black ink. But to my shame, even though I am an English teacher, my hand writing is atrocious. Sometimes I find it unimaginable that someone with the manual dexterity to move a razor sharp blade around the face and remove only whiskers and lather, can not move a pen across a page to produce legible words. Normally this isn't much of a problem. All of my lessons are typed. I use a computer and projector in my classrooms. But once a month I have to fill out a pay form where I have to write my name up to forty times on one page. Thai bureaucracy requires that I write my name twice for each day on a monthly pay sheet just in case my name changes from day to day. If you read my hand writing on this particular pay document you might imagine that my name does in fact change from day to day from Nathan to something illegible and unpronounceable. This is something I would like to improve. So how does one improve the quality of ones hand writing? Do you have the same problem and have you improved your writing skills?