Typewriter

 

You Should Buy Your Kid a Typewriter

Meghan Moravcik Walbert

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When I put out a call for freelance pitches last week, I also asked readers to send me post or topic ideas they’d like to read—even if they didn’t want to write them themselves. Which is how it came to be that a 53-year-old newspaper

I learned how to type on a manual typewriter. By the time I switched to an electric typewriter, it was too late. I developed a habit of pounding the keys. I can spot the other people who learned the same way in meetings. They do the same thing.