Clear, clean and easy to read as her books, Beverly Cleary’s signature is straight forward and legible. If she hadn’t become an author, she has what it takes to be a school teacher (like her mother). An only child growing up on a farm in Oregon, Ms. Cleary struggled learning to read. Once she...
Is this man really as eccentric as the characters he plays on the big screen? When we take a look at Christopher Walken‘s handwriting, we see some of those ‘just a little off’ characteristics in his signature. Born Ronald Walken, Christopher (Chris to his friends) changed his name at the suggestion of Monique van...
Born Ehrich Weisz, Harry Houdini changed his name after he moved to America from Hungary and became a professional magician. Being a trapeze artist at the age of nine, was his first stage performance and gave him the bug to be in the limelight. He tried acting but found a love for optical illusions...
March 24th, 1832 – Joseph Smith, prophet of the Mormon church was allegedly beaten, tarred and feathered. The surface level story is something to the effect that some unfaithful people who didn’t like Joseph because of his religion pulled him out and beat him up. But some sources suggest that Joseph was targeted by...
Nat King Cole was a merry old soul and a merry old soul was he…. This week’s handwriting analysis birthday shout shows that Mr. Cole was ahead of his time. He was optimist, goal-driven, funny and friendly. Born in Montgomery, Alabama in 1919 Nathaniel Adams Cole’s family moved to Illinois. He grew up in...
Happy 34th birthday Carrie Underwood (Fisher)! Ever since I watched the movie, God Bless America, I’ve sworn off reality shows. However, in 2005, I was swept up in the fourth season of American Idol like the rest of the country. Carrie Underwood was the obvious choice and I cried along with her when she...
March 6th 1981 – Walter Cronkite passes the baton to Mr. Dan Rather. ...
Happy birthday Alexander Graham Bell, known as Aleck to his family and A.G. Bell to his business associates. Born in Scotland, this innovative scientist moved to Canada and eventually settled in Massachusetts when he married a deaf student of his and became a naturalized citizen of the U.S. Most likely, you’re reading this from...
It’s not every day you see a trailer for an independently published novel… but we made one. The hope is to give potential readers a taste of what The Sinner’s Club is about and more importantly WHO it’s about… hope you enjoy!!...
Steve Jobs changed the world in which we live. This is true whether you use Apple or not. Happy birthday to this genius who would have been 62 today (February 24) had he not died of cancer in October, 2011. He was adopted at birth by a second set of parent’s when his birth...
