The Lance Armstrong debacle continues to unfold and now the fallen hero clunks into the dénouement. Watching confessions of ongoing steroid use throughout an illustrious career in professional sports is somehow riveting. Is it because we are keen to witness the emergence of a long-denied truth? Maybe we are bearing...
(2) Comments | Posted October 24, 2012 | 6:41 PM
At the age of 70, Barbra Streisand is back in the limelight, and with that we can ponder her unusual success. How many celebrities remain in the public eye over the course of five decades? How many singers can command those ticket prices for concerts? And how come we never...
(2) Comments | Posted September 28, 2012 | 3:46 PM
Katie Couric's recent disclosure about her struggles with bulimia perhaps took some by surprise. Yet, for graphologists, Couric's history of inner strife follows from an issue strongly indicated in her signature.
One variable examined by clinicians who analyze handwriting is the degree to which any given handwriting conforms...
(23) Comments | Posted August 23, 2012 | 6:55 PM
In the wake of reports that Toronto's mayor has been distracted at the wheel, only one question remains: why won't Rob Ford use a driver? One look at his signature provides the only answer that hasn't been put forward, an answer not but forth by his aides who...
(3) Comments | Posted August 10, 2012 | 6:15 PM
The Olympics are coming to a close and, once again, swimmer Michael Phelps leaves having set new world records. His recent performance takes me back 40 years. It was 1972 when his predecessor won seven gold medals, the most that had ever been won by an athlete over the course...
(12) Comments | Posted August 6, 2012 | 9:00 AM
A spate of recent murders leave us grappling to understand. So much ink is spilled as pundits and experts alike try to explain the unexplainable. A different type of ink trail can also inform our understanding of evil, a topic that surely defies an answer from any one source.
...(5) Comments | Posted July 24, 2012 | 1:03 PM
What's with Donald Trump's hairdo? Freud said, "betrayal oozes out of the individual at every pore... If his lips are silent, he chatters with his fingertips." If Freud was right, Trump's forward-thrusting comb-over must be meaningful. I will assert that we can learn from his signature trait... and...
(5) Comments | Posted July 13, 2012 | 12:48 PM
Junior is at sleepover camp and you are tracking his activities: a trickle of thumb written texts, a handful of acronyms and emoticons. Do you ever feel nostalgic, remembering handwritten letters from yesteryear? Or, like many, do you consider handwriting obsolete, preferring a clean, sharp font to Junior's illegible scrawl?
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(14) Comments | Posted January 18, 2013 | 5:12 PM