About ten years ago, I came up with the following idea: what if I wrote with my left hand? I suspected my penmanship would improve over time as I became more versatile with it, but would what I wrote and how I wrote about subjects change? As a general rule, the left hand is connected to the right hemisphere of the brain and the right hand is connected to the left hemisphere of the brain. Would this be noticeable in my writing? I don't know. So in April I begin this rather unscientific study by, most mornings, just simply writing in a big sketch book with my left hand. April 4th, 2011 The idea that my writing, my penmanship, will improve is a hopeful one. Another one is the idea that I'll tap some otherwise unused portion of my brain because my left hand is wired differently than my right. Science supports the idea of different hemispheres connected to left and right, but surely it it thinks much, much faster. It might even be faster...
Confessions of a Human Nerve Ending: Poet-Writer-Rhetor-Monologist- Photographer-Dudeist Priest