This is One Thing, a column with tips on how to live. Growing up in Saudi Arabia, I learned cursive with a fountain pen in the third grade as part of the standard curriculum. I wasn’t good at school, ...

TRYING TO WRITE a note by hand after years of typing on a physical keyboard or smartphone screen can be discouraging. Often, the spastic result only vaguely resembles penmanship. Thankfully, though, ...

WITH HANDWRITING NOW almost as endangered as rhinos, certain orchids and public libraries, how has the fountain pen—with more than a thousand years of history behind it—survived into the 21st century?